To be fair, things aren't great here either. We're doing better than Britain, but we are also dealing with one of the worst housing affordability crisis's in the world.
@StrikeBolteafc give it time, UK is like a failson crackhead that still hasn't sold his matress and holds onto the few remaining teeth, but it's obvious where it's going.
My grandma, Evelyn Robinson, died in March of 2023 because the NHS knew of her mouth cancer and didn’t provide treatment until a month after. She was the most kind and generous people i’ve ever known, kind to the point where she was nice towards people who would happily manipulate her kindness, and now she’s dead, and could have been saved if it weren’t for the NHS’s incompetency.
Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are on a plane, Sunak looked at Starmer, chuckled, and said, "You know, I could throw £1,000 out of the window right now and make somebody happy." Starmer shrugged his shoulders and replied, "I could throw twenty £50 notes out of the window and make twenty people happy." Hearing their exchange, the pilot said to his co-pilot, I could throw both of them out of the window and make 64 million people happy!"
Replace those names with "Clinton and Biden" and I heard a version of this joke told by many a cranky millionaire here in TX... This one was way funnier because I agree with the politics 😂
I...kinda feel proud of being south american, I mean, we also have a shitty public healthcare system and all...well, he said about covid... *RECEBA BRAZIL MELHOR DO MUNDO CARALHO* *BRITAIN 200K DEAD ONLY WE 700K OF COVID SIUUUUU* *BRAZIL FIRST FIRST FIRST ONLY SECOND TO AMERICA*
You have to fact check a bunch of this stuff. Lots of missing context. Its like the politicians take on any issue. You will need to go look at the opposite side of all these arguments in reality.
@@johnhandy3483 concurrent parties have known about the effects these policies have had and still gone along with them. The government is incompetent and vicious. The UK is being ran into the ground by an aristocracy again.
you people are living in a good place thats why you don't understand whats hard time is.... from the looks of it seems like a small setback , everything will be alright
@@bmqww223no offence to you but this attitude is literally how countries get worse “we don’t have it as bad as other countries so we are fine” meanwhile ignoring the evident downwards trend. A perfect example is Canadian healthcare anytime any improvements are suggested they are met with extreme hostility because people don’t want an “American” system and now there are millions who don’t have regular access to a personal doctor.
@@bmqww223 What an idiotic mentality "others have it worse so i shouldn't improve my position" really speaks volumes about the kind of person you are...
@@jaimay125yep. I’m English, I have Crohn’s disease. When I started receiving regular care, it was maintained, I was well kept. Now I’m going in for my my first appointment since 2021 😀
In time, like all countries that smother their young people, those with education will leave, Britain will experience horrible brain drain. It will be a country of pensioners with no one to pay for the cost
Amerika is in the same boat. Besides; america is the proverbial nut that hasn't rolled far from the uk tree. This anglo"appeasement / apologising gentlemen mentality/ culture" is why the rest of the World is aggressively taking over the West .
Nah....; the Pensioners will have to pay it and end up living in cardboard boxes while their new "non-white overlords" live in luxury. But hey; isn't this what western white-guilt appeasers and apologists fantasize about in the first place?
Many countries eager to follow that trend too. Now being 3rd world country right now doesn't seem so bad only up from there while the rest of the modern world crashes.
I'm Japanese. Japan was bad during the lost decade and the effects are still felt today..........When I first saw this video, I thought it was a joke. It looked like North Korea in the 90's. Terrible things can happen to anyone and hope the UK can recover from its wounds.
We can't. The globalists are importing millions of non whites who despise us and bleed us dry in benefits. We are taxed into poverty to pay for them. Tax on tax on tax
Eastern european here. 2023 was the first year since the collapse of the soviet union that more people returned from UK than immigrated away to it. I don't think Covid is the (only) reason
@@mokisan as a Polish who currently lives in the UK I can only tell from my own experience. At my workplace I haven't seen any (Polish) newcomers for at least 4 years or so, but pretty much half of the people I worked with for years, left. There's also a quite substantial group (including me) who plans to leave once either their kids finish mid-school / become adults, and/or once they pay their mortgage off. My friend who works for a recruitment company has also seen a downward trend in last 5 years. There was an uptick of workers from Romania, but that pond also quickly dried out. Simply speaking, current perspectives of living and thriving in the UK are looking ... bleak, to put it bluntly. It's such a shame as I honestly fell in love with this open-air ethnographic museum of Europe.
Same thing is happening in Ireland. A lot of the Poles are returning home to Poland. I know a good few Poles who collectively are planning to return to Poland lol.
HOLY FUCK, I DIDNT KNOW IT WAS THAT BAD?? I (a czech citizen) have just visited England a few months back, and the whole time I was thinking: damn, do these guys just not have public infrastructure? Like why is there such a lack of benches, litter bins and people? I had no clue a former superpower and a modern western nation has people dying of malnutrition. Thats just.... mad. I litteraly live a post-socialist country and we are doing good, even with the prices of everything rising (fucking kleptocratic polititians and corpo-bastards). Damn Britain, you really fell from grace...
@@TheKetinaFrench here, eastern Europe's currently very appealing, although I'm obviously in the extreme minority. Less for monetary reasons though, but yeah. Eastern Europe is getting attractive :>. And if I move it'll be to learn the language too. It'll depend where I find jobs for me *is in applied maths to logistics/optimization problems*
I'm American and I am angry, and I don't even live in Britain. Your future as a nation has been stolen, ripped from your hands. And I honestly hope the youth take their country back from those who don't deserve it anymore.
Well that's what happens when a country doesn't do social investments for years; you know, like the republicans would if they could. You aren't so far away from that fate; between corrupt democrats and billionaire backed republicans.
@@isaacmcareavey237what happened to “trump this, biden that” “no culture”💀😭 lmao yall had failing country and still were talking shi online😭 like atl americas gunna be here in 10 years😂🤣😂🤣😭😭
@@bizzarehubbs America has her own problems I wont deny that, but I see now that they are far more manageable than what I have seen from Britain today.
Despite the conservatives being the center of the video, I like how BritMonkey still criticizes the rest of the UK parties for putting Britain in the sorry state it's in
Politicians suck anywhere you look. Ya got optimists on one side who think everything will be alright if they just go this way, and you got pessimists on the other side who think everything will go wrong if they don't stay in the way they've been going. Both sides end up ruining culture, economy, government, and military when they need to forget ideology and start looking at things pragmatically, realistically, and with a sense of moralism. Sure, having a welfare state is very, very difficult and doesn't work for most countries, but going in the opposite direction, maximizing efficiency and keeping costs as low as possible is just going to lead to greed and indifference. The people of the western world expect services that we simply cannot afford, at least not now. At the same time, the Government which says they'll help proceeds to not help in any way. We're entitled, and can't accept that the world simply doesn't conform to us. And we expect the Government to somehow get better my voting in the same people (On both sides), over and over again. We need economists, administrators, and decent, good, people to get elected in local communities, 'county' communities, 'states', and of course congress/parliament, and prime minister/president.
Blaming the conservatives for increasing government debt is stupid, even the graph they use shows it rising at a far higher rate with labour, and staying at that lower rate until the pandemic.
they all have the same polices, that they get from the same think tanks and just reword it slightly to appeal to their voter base. the politicians all have the same background educated at the same universities with the same institutionalised retardedness that's stifled growth and innovation since the industrial revolution. Expecting anything different at this point is very wishful thinking.
@@zekehatcher2196 "Having a welfare state is very difficult and doesn't work in most countries." Key here being "countries" as in places led by governments with vested interests to not make it work.
I already thought this, but the video has confirmed my belief. The UK never recovered from World War 2 and the collapse of its empire, it just took Thatcher to really make the rot become obvious.
i remember as a Lithuanian in my family were in a transit trip through Britain in 2017 during Brexit- my dad got "interrogated" by some form of border officer who asked him "Are you planning to sneak in to the country?" He said "In a few years, you'll be begging us to sneak in to our country!" I laughed back then. but now it's honestly sad to see how bad it went
I mean, to be fair Lithuania is on the path of falling apart as well, outside the big two cities. Even there things are at best 'going OK' I guess...Things do look pretty decent on paper, because turns out a country with a first world level of education that is pretty poor while also having overall pretty widespread english speaking skills in its youth is a prime place for other countries to set up local offices in, while local companies are kinda struggling, as soon as a country where its cheaper to move those offices to shows up, then our economy is gonna take a nose dive
i really hope russia doesn't roll into lithuania like they did in ukraine for now i prefer to stay in the UK but in the long run if there is solid, stable peace the lithuania could be a much better option!
I’m in this boat! Lithuania is a country which I’ve fallen in love with recently and I’d really love to move there. The tricky thing would be finding a job with only a basic level of the language
When I was younger I didn't understand how fast things can degrade. Buildings, buses, signage, roads, computers, internet connections, plumbing... All of it can go from state-of-the-art to decrepit very quickly without continual investment. And like all good things, it's more efficient to keep it in shape than to start from the bottom of the barrel.
There's a positive side to this though. Things can also get better very fast. Sure, it might not be as ideal as keeping already great infrastructure and services in shape, but it isn't as hard as you might think. All it takes is a decent government with political will. Not sure if that is an option in Britain right now though...
Because it was a multinational project. More apt would be: UK INVENTED THE RAILWAY but couldn't build a new line connecting three cities. It was more expensive than India's space project and was cancelled anyway.
@@seneca983 you don't say. A small mountainous country, that has spend the last 600 years either as part of the Ottomans or the Russians. Truth be told, it could have been much worse than that
@@seneca983 because it has been robbed again and again by countries like Britain. Bulgaria had been the plaything for other countries due to its strong geographic location.
Ireland is also a dump. Just tax dodging companies make Ireland look wealthy on paper. It's a country with one train an hour between it's two largest cities (none of which go to the major airports).
I'm from Hong Kong. One of my friends ran away to Britain for freedom, riches, and a "superior" culture. He came back to Hong Kong after a year. Nowadays, he goes to mainland China often - something he NEVER did before - and doesn't want to see the West contain it. Good job, Britain. Very good job.
China is the last place anyone with a a working brain would want to go to. Tofu Dreg is proof of the corruption and horrific state of affairs... China is literally falling apart.
Something to add to the story of MF DOOM's time at the hospital before his death, his wife had added that "he had been unable to alert medical staff to his deteriorating condition as his 'buzzer' was out of reach", as well as "he had been placed in a room containing an 'old metal desk' and books, saying the room appeared to be 'a hospital room a very long time ago' ". She also said that he literally collapsed after struggling to breathe and trying to get out of his bed after complaining (can't give exact word because the source LeedsLive is a pain in the ass to use). It's grim how quickly they destroyed his entire life due to the incompetence of the government.
At what point does something escalate to neglectful homicide? Because it feels like what happened to MF DOOM definitely falls on the worse side of that line.
@@tjenadonn6158 Doesn't fall into it if you just avoid the situation entirely, which is what they did for about 2 years after his death and even then gave the most PR answer ever of "oops sorry about that we'll 'investigate' into it, all good yeah?"
Look no further than your own reality, you got your socialist government that allows any migrants invade your country, hike your taxes and there's less and less jobs .
Brilliant video. I live in NZ. We've got a lot of similar problems. NZ is a giant retirement village. No young person can afford a home. None of my mates have started a family and we're all about 26 years old now. The old people degrade the youth while showing hardly any sympathy to our struggle. I graduated right when COVID-19 hit. I couldn't find a job at the time, so I chose to work at a late-night pharmacy doing checkout work for a bit of money. It was a massive wake-up call. I'll never forget the complete disregard for the youth that took place at the time. No one hosted parties anymore, and people stopped socialising. We were forced to stay inside for safety reasons rather than determine our own fate. We were treated like babies that couldn't know any better. We desperately need a global revolution. Our time on this earth is ticking away and if we let these old farts have their way then we'll have nothing to show for it.
Mississippi has always been, adjusted for taxes and other Europe-specific mandatory payments (social security) etc. that don't count as taxes in Europe, richer than any European country bigger than Monaco. Way richer than Norway, Switzerland, Ireland etc. This is simply a fact, the US is just that rich.
@@bestchannelintheworld I’d need a source to back up the notion that Mississippi had always been richer than every European country larger than Monaco After taxes and transfers. The GDP per capita data doesn’t seem to bare that out.
@@deriznohappehquite I mean... Mississippi was considered *really* wealthy back in the days when Africans were considered property, not people (so official records might be kind of f*cked). But also, this was back when most of the world was an agricultural economy---an industry which Mississippi has always specialized in. So it doesn't really surprise me.
Whenever a RUclipsr leaves for a considerable period of time, you either get a good ending where they have been working on a massive project and make a glorious return, or you get the bad ending where you never hear from them again. Today my friends, we got the good ending.
I lived in London when i was 16 20 years ago, it was undoubtedly the coolest City and always wondered how it could work so well for such size. The underground was one of my favourite "attractions", i used to take it and explore the city on the weekends, dont remember feeling unsafe. I visited 2 years ago, London lost its luster... Made me sad , somehow depressed. Kids wont know what has been taken away from them (and all of us too). The most concerning thing is that the whole world is apparently anxious to follow that path...
THIS is what actual patriotism looks like. Offering concrete, constructive criticism, instead of jingoism and appeal to nostalgia, a.k.a burying one’s head in the sand
Idk if i care a about being patriotic when i cant get anything to eat man. You know what, the guy who flies to the colorado mountain resort every year looks like he has some fat on his bones.
It's just criticism, not constructive, since he himself said he doesn't know what to do to fix it. But yeah, you can really feel the passion ooze out of this video
Or the British government love 40k Imperium so much that they model themselves after the Administratum, giving the facts that 40k was made in Nottingham.
Look, I am from Indonesia, and this is horrifying. It's really sad and infuriating to see all the economic growth potential thrown away by out of touch and incompetent politicians. I hope Britain changes for the best in the following years, best wishes
As an Argentine, I feel no happiness when i look at Britain rotting like it is. It's a shame your government is actively doing the worst possible things to ruin your economy and i hope it can change soon.
Watching this as a Romanian is so strange. It's like you guys are going through what Eastern European countries went through in the 90s up until we joined the EU. We're not rich by any means, but at least we've had quite significant improvements over the last years. Good luck to you guys, hope you'll manage to figure things out!
My parents are Welsh, and Romanian; I've always wanted to go back to Wales or Romania, but given I've been hearing great things about the progress Romania's making and not so much Wales.... Yeah.
I'm Hungarian but I've lived in England for so long and continue too for the education. I. Cannot. Wait. To. Go. Back. Every time I go to Hungary it's like, wow people are actually happy? I'm happy? Things are pretty?
Why teach French in primary school when you can have Polish? I would love hiring some random bloke from Birmingham clean my house and get more than his degree allows him to.
The language they teach here is horrible, although that could be because quarter of the students already know a second language and the rest are English and believe that everyone else should learn English and they shouldn’t learn A language
"hey lets cut funds from policing, medical services, local councils, schools, housing & public transport, then spend an ungodly amount of money on half a train line, leave the largest economic area on earth, funnel money into an African country criticized for its human rights violations, arbitrarily limit what can be built or who can become a doctor" "Why is the country going to shit & why does everyone hate my political party?"
I'm the first of my entire family to ever pass more than 2 GCSEs, passed my A-Levels, when to University of Sussex to study Physics. Thought I'd just about managed to break the poverty cycle. December of first year, after house hunting non stop since freshers week, I couldn't afford a piss-stained, mould-infested cupboard with a maintenance loan and working 25+ hours a week. Was forced to drop out and move back home, and it's not just me. A lot of my school mates all went to uni together, and every single one of them - barring 2 (from high income families who could afford to subsidise them) - have dropped out one by one. I-m now earning £8 an hour and I feel lucky cos it took me 5 months to find a job. Honestly don't know how long the young people of this country are going to just sit back and get fucked over and over again before shit really hits the fan.
the young people can't do much. as aging demographics increases, the median voting age aka giving more power to tory voting pension grandpas. the only way out of this is some insane person like milei, who comes in and abolishes all of the current regulations, so that the economy can start functioning again.
i feel bad for you. my perspective of what an average wage shuld be is probsbly sqewed since im from norway but 8pound/h is worse than my traine wage thats only 60% of a normal wage and i didn't even go to universety
@@TaylorfromPapaLouie correction as of Google. They ditched it last year in favor of no nukes defence only, but prior to that they suggested that NATO was harmful to peace
"We are literally paying to train other countries' doctors and nurses" Yeah, welcome to the second world, buddy. I'm sure all Eastern Europeans can relate.
@@danielnight5057 giving you a little hindsight: most of them will never come back. Most of the immigration to the more developed countries consists of 20-30 year old people, in the prime of their lives, ready to work, live and create a family. By the time when any of the Eastern European country will get better (better than the previously considered "developed countries" AT LEAST), they will consider those developed countries as their homes and most likely will not give up on their new lives for the sake of just coming back. As a Ukrainian who will soon be studying in a university in Bratislava, this does tear my heart apart knowing that these people, these little cogs in the nation's economy are leaving and I'm one of them, because my father is worried and afraid that mobilisation might get too far in our country, looking at when approximately this horrific war will end. I wholeheartedly support my country and wish it all the best and I will keep every single string that binds me with my Homeland, but I can't be sure if all of my compatriots would share the same point of view. The war will end, but the lives go on.
As an American, fully aware of the shithole our country has become, this makes me legitimately sad. The destruction of these once great nations has to be deliberate, right?!
Its collectively so... the wealth got too divided. Very few in the race to be millionairs or more care to distribute their wealth, as it hinders their progress. Its a new level of greed and its filthy
I once saw someone say "if you don't pay attention to the news, your life becomes happier" yet it's impossible to avoid it when you can't leave your house without bearing witness to the crimes against humanity committed by the Conservatives. You can't even stay INSIDE your house, because it's impossible to afford one.
That's like going to sleep to escape your real life problems. Your dreams may be pleasant but sooner or later you will have to wake up. And in this case, it will be a rude awakening.
don't think others will do better right now, the problem is imbedded in your society especially, noblesse obligé, you'd know the younger ones as "trustafarians" the people that own all your homes, all major companies and are the people in charge of your institutions cause they don't need to strive for active income. you blame conservatives but have you noticed that labour doesn't class you by income or standard of living but by race, sex, orientation,... allmost as if they are shifting blame to anyone that looks a certain way.
I was working in the NHS in 2016 and the communication system collapsed because a generic email was sent out and someone pressed 'reply all' and a ton of people responded to them telling them they had pressed 'reply all' and it crashed the email system for 3 days
Hahah, the legendary reply all. I have seen it couple of times in IT company. The funniest were the people replying with: "Dont reply all". to all again. Starting a chain e-mail lasting days.
I'm Hungarian, I used to live in the UK between 2014 and 2019. I have worked in IT, had a salary of 40K my wife made 35K. We have decided to move back to Hungary after Brexit because the atmosphere became too toxic + it is easier to raise kids and buy a home here than in London. Now in 2024 we have our own newly built 3 bedroom semi-detached house, mortgage is around 380 GBP per month. (We own two paid off cars 5+10 y.o.). Both our kids are now in private education and will be able to go to university for free. Everybody I know from all around Europe (Poles, Romanians, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Slovaks) have left the UK and moved back home with kids. I'm so sad it has came to this, we loved the UK and wanted to live there forever, not because of the money but because of how good the country is and how nice the people are. It breaks my heart to see how the British society is erroding.
i never understood why eastern europeans hated their countries and move west many years ago (and now you all regret it). i look at the wikipedia and all your countries are social democracies with the same or even better welfare systems and livelihood than western europe now, like you just mentioned in your comment. the tides are turning it seems.
@@nerd2544 Money, for many people its pretty good to move for some time into western country and have 3 times bigger salary for the same job and then move back and buy things they wouldn´t be able to ever afford if they never left.
@@tefky7964 not to mention that during the 2000s, many of those countries have just joined the EU and just transitioned away from communism, which was a long and rocky process
Why is everybody with kids and a family and at the same time.. we have an army of men fhat dont even know the touch of a woman.. what the hell is going on ?
@@nerd2544 Most Eastern European countries went through very tough period in the 90s and up to mid 2000s. Sometimes you had to work for a pittance, and, even then, your would receive your pay 2-3 months later. In a cold climate it makes things even worse. It was not an ability to buy more shit what concerned the most who emigrated, it was being stuck and poor. 100k Brits emigrated to New York in the 1970s(according to New York Museum). Why did they do it? Economy, perhaps?
‘Yes. But it’d be much worse under Labour’: my 65 year old parents the day they came within hours of losing a huge chunk of their pensions thanks to Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng doing their ‘wreck the economy speedrun’.
It's so much easier to convince people that "they are evil" instead of "we're better" political discussion devolve into that everywhere I see. It's no different here
That episode was such a train wreck, but the basic idea of cutting taxes, which were and remain at historic highs, to spawn a boom could have at least worked short term (albeit ending in a bigger bust longer term, unless we actually taxed away the resultant land price gains). More than the substance and strategy the major failing was in the slapdash panicked implementation. 1 Kwateng's mini budget was sprung out of nowhere with no consultation, even with the cabinet 2 Even more crucially The B of E were not consulted, when the £ tanked they had to step in and the £ recovered all of it's losses BUT Bailey, no doubt royally pissed off, put a 2 week time limit on support so in the end the government had to fold. Ironically Truss had already talked about taking control of the B of E before, yet decided to try and put the cart before the horse, either in the hope the horse would just capitulate or under the presumption FX/currency markets wouldn't have reacted so strongly. Bailey kept his job, Truss lost to a lettuce. So we got sent back to RIchi's' safe pair of hands' and left Starmer's timid visionless leadership with even more excuses to not try anything that might possibly rattle markets.
@@schumanhumanyou made a mistake in your comment. Cutting taxes for the rich, literally never worked out well. It's putting extra taxes on ordinaire people for a tax releave on the ultra rich
Could be true. It’s a race to the bottom with first past the post and an atomized society. Neither represent you and it doesn’t matter which sociopath you vote for in a lying contest. The culturally and ethnically homogenous country that existed in the past no longer does. Regardless who you vote for they are more concerned with their friends in WEF or Brussels and they think of you as much as they do about some dude in Pakistan; not at all.
@@memevondank1197At this point, We Happy Few may be better. Sure, Wellington Wells is an authoritarian nightmare and everything is exponentially going to shit, but at least you've got Uncle Jack and free drugs.
The NHS part hit hard for me, my grandad is anemic, we learnt this a few months ago when he was rushed to hospital because it got so bad. Saturday morning I visit the hospital for the first time, and get info on his condition, they don't know what happened but they mention his blood pressure hasn't stopped soaring upward, the same story the day after, it was INSANELY high, he wasn't doing well. Luckily my uncle had noticed that no one had given my grandad any of his regular medication, they had it, but the doctor, who was off for the weekend, was apparently the only one who was able to readministor his medicine? after a back and forth, one of the nurses were able to get him his BLOOD PRESSURE medicine, he might have died that night had me and my uncle not advocated for him. The fact that he would have been safer at home is insane.
When you have a better chance at survival lying on the street at the mercy of ordinary civilians versus being in a hospital bed with doctors "taking care of you"
Seems it's the standard operating procedure for anyone elderly - to screw up their medication either get their blood pressure out of whack to cause a stroke, or give them analgesics to cause dehydration and pretend their confusion is a urinary tract infection.
Because most of the doctors in the NHS are from 3rd world counties and not up to the same standard of high end British educated doctors who move to foreign countries because they get paid way more money than what the NHS would pay them working in the private sector.
@@royalcrowntowing2464 xenophobic reply, god, I've been to a British university, they aren't that special. The issue is again systematic, his British doctor was off all weekend, nothing to do with immigrants.
Everytime i rewatch this video I get an overwhelming sense of morbidity. I feel sick and I feel tired. The areas in my town which seem unsavoury and broken only seem to grow. It's rancid. Now maybe we have a new government things might be better but we've still got tax breaks on petrol and rising bus prices. Madness.
My son has sickle cell disease and comes with a crisis. I called the ambulance because it was an emergency and he needed fluids put into him ASAP to stop the pain getting worse but was told by ambulance that I needed to wait 20mins for the ambulance to arrive. They expected me to wait 20mins with a 2 year old in crisis. I took a taxi and we were in hospital less than 10mins and my son was seen immediately because when the crisis starts it's go go go. We're slowly losing our health system because of greedy politicians who care more about their pockets and Ego boost than actual human beings in need. Their lack of empathy speaks volumes
i had a simler thing wiff me a dislocated leg they put me on a 1h wating list then 3h later a ambulance arrived. god i wish i was just carried to the car to go to the hospital. 3h i was just wating in so much pain cud barely string 2 sentences together it was the worst thing ever for me and it was all the politicians fault. your right
its not just government greed but having a NHS thats overbloated/overpriced, costing taxpayers far too many millions annually but mostly getting used up by people who quite frankly shouldnt be here and have payed feck all into the system.
I don't get it, you post a graph that shows chronic under investment in the NHS and then another that basically shows nothing and conclude that adopting the us system would be better. Despite the fact that health expenditure is the biggest cause of bankruptcy in the USA. Also the monthly cost of health insurance in USA is £500, plus there is a daily limit for what you can claim. People come away from a hospital stay with £20k debt despite having insurance. Read "bitter pill: why medical bills are killing us" the US spends about 20% of GDP on healthcare
Lolzer! What cobblers! After eighteen years living in france, paris exactly, I see way more freedom, prosperity, and oppertunity in the uk!.. Id checks everywhere in france, pulled over and patted down.. Prosperity? 83% of french earn just over minimum wage... Oppertunity? Setup your own company in france, cost you 4k€ in the bank to satisfy the bank and authorities, and you will pay TAX before you've earned a single euro!... Lolza !
But hey, you all got your 400,000 migrants. Where do you want your 4000000 migrants? Your not racist right? So you want 40000000 migrants? Fewer white than ever but no replacement totally!
@@jonathansimmons5353 Leave, that is what people need to start doing. Show by the numbers. They want to flood the country with immigrants that ruin it. Just leave to a better run country. French people could resettle in one of the many colonies set up in the past...
I wish people here in the UK would understand this. While this is a decent video, even BM misses the point, thinking this is all "Tory incompetence". That's not the bottom truth though. This _is_ a case of malice beyond incompetence. Tories are an elite who hate you, they seek pure wealth transfer to their class. In their eyes, you _should be a serf_ , your life is entirely dispensable. Understand this.
I knew when he announced that that the braindead audience would think he said "build," simply because he coyly explained 2x and not 6x that it wasn't actually built.
I'm a benefits advisor in Newcastle. I genuinely have been to countless tribunals because the government refuses to give disabled people the minimum amount of money needed to survive. I once went to tribunal (remember, this is a court case with a judge and a doctor) to defend my client's disability, that she couldn't walk. She had her legs amputated 20 years prior. The government hold onto all the money they can, and then do fuck all with it.
So GDP goes up 500 billion, average wages dont go up at all, and government spending on public resources collapses. I wonder where this wealth and productivity is going. It cant certainly be the rich, who definitely cant be taxed.
Nominal wages (not adjusted for inflation) have increased, but real wages (inflation adjusted) have stagnated, which could be due to increased prices on imported goods for example - assuming British productivity growth has not kept up with growth in exporting nations. If you're genuinely curious about why real wages have stagnated in Britain, then it's probably best to read about it instead of jumping to the most conspiratorial explanation.
I believe the reason this happens is because hurting your attacker is seen by UK Gov as a violation of the government's authority. You are (in their eyes) essentially usurping them, because they should be the sole authority to give out punishments for crimes.
@@philsonhtc2871 agreed mate, but in a sane society you shouldn’t get punished for defending yourself within reason. At that point you’re in clown world territory.
It's bleak, eh? I live in one of the only places in the country that has any investment (Manchester Centre), and the number of my old school friends who are dead against ANYTHING improving (no new houses, no new restaurants, no new bike lanes, no run clubs, no yoga studios...) is fucking depressing. It's like we WANT to be left behind by the world. Japan's wages didn't grow for decades because they chose to. ours didn't grow because we're incompetent. Hearing about US tech and finance salaries of 500k+ whilst we argue over train drivers' £60k being "overpaid" because they inconvenienced us a couple times with strikes... Idk man
'friends who are dead against ANYTHING improving' This right here seems to be the national mood wherever you go. Things have decayed to a point that any idea of improvement moves us a step away from some mythical time when we were great as a nation and doing fine. But in the minds of Brits (myself included) we moan, whinge and get angry down the pub and then do nothing. It's as if the large majority of Brits from the working and middle class don't wish to change anything if it means that neighbour we don't like also benefits from changes or improvements. We're a polite bunch but that goes hand in hand with being a horrifically servile society that waits for the next person to come along and change everything for the better without having to lift a finger. Whilst younger people might be more willing to take to the streets, all it takes is for the newspapers (of which 70% are run by three people) to fire headline after headline and Westminster politicians will wake up from their alcohol and cocaine induced haze to exclaim 'TIME FOR SOME MORE FASCISM TODAY!! Oh and benefits are bad'. I've wondered about the future of this country for a while now, but the more I look at the mainstream parties (Cons, labour, lib dems, reform) the more I think none of them have a single clue what to do. All their policies are superfluous (a little bit more for the NHS, cut more benefits, defund councils more) when there is a network of big financial players in the city, bankers, oligarchs and oil barons from far flung places; major property players and old gents clubs made up entirely of eton, oxford and Cambridge grads who tug at strings from diffused angles all with the same interest: make as much money as possible, hide it away from the tax man and make sure their friends in the news are still singing the same song (whether it's the war on motorists, trans mania, civil service bad or benefit scroungers). I know there are many government failures too but my prior point has been something I've read about a lot recently so excuse the foil rustling in the background. What was my point? Errrr.... I guess spoons is still cheap so that's alright for me boys!
The worst part is that both the Uk and japan are choosing stagnation. Theu've been taught to fear deficits and the national debt even though government deficits = private sector surpluses and the national debt simply accounts for peoples assets and savings. More people need to read The Deficit Myth or watch that new documentary "finding the money"
I am surprised that the UK can have so many authoritarian & surveillance laws, and is still completely incapable of putting away the people those laws were intended to stop.
Be glad at least those want to go over to that gloomy island as no one else has such intentions. The UK is doomed. It is always overestimation of the matters just like tonight’s football-a bitter loss for England, a bitter loss for the UK.
what he omitted to mention is police staff were cut by 20,000 in tory austerity and tories had only just fulfilled the 20,000 more officers target which didnt actually add any help its just reset it LOL police have severe funding issues rn and the entire criminal justice system does in general. 1/3 of cps staff have been working there dor less than 3 years, 70% of judges are privately educated, prisons had CRC contracts that had to be broken because the CRCs were SO bad. Victim attrition is horrific bc CPS only let the police charge offenders that they know they can safely successfully prosecute hence why rapists aren’t charged they focus on small low level easy to prosecute crimes bc its cheaper and easier. Police public relations are nonexistent due to corruption and misconduct that would horrify a nazi. Hillsborough, stephen lawrence, sarah everad etc; are just a few reasons that EVERYONE just doesnt trust the police. Casey review just proved all of that too, uk police were found to be institutionally misogynistic racist and homophobic. And on top of that a general Misunderstanding of how the cjs works also is jn play bc unless you specifically know that police do not charge criminals and that the CPS does youre not gonna know. People assume its like the USA where police choose to prosecute and accuse when in reality the cps was introduced in the 80s to stop corruption bc seperating police from prosecution meant there was a seperate non government agency presiding over criminal cases to ensure police werent just well lying essentially LOL.
This video should be mandatory watching for anyone under the age of 30 in this country. We’re constantly told we don’t pull our weight and that we are complaining despite being in the “luckiest most fortunate and pampered” generation. Understanding that is bile and is just a stock response as an excuse to ignore deep rooted problems that will affect US, the young people in this country not the pensioners. Such an important video
So basically the UK is run by the HOA no wonder why you can't get any development done. I worked on a development next to an established HOA and I was harassed by them for just having survey equipment out to make measurements
It’d be one thing if they were using all that control to actually… use that control. But no. Just sit on it like a washed out game company sits on its legacy franchises.
I'm Argentine, and I'm shocked to see what your going through, it's kind of unbelievable,......to think that the world sees us, Argentina as a third world country, I don't think that , after your video ,I think I live in the best place on earth, lovely weather, lots of land to build no mortgage and we even have good public hospitals. I love my country. God bless u.
The numbers used by economists are pretty much meaningless to everyday life. You're lucky to be somewhere that ordinary people can have a good life as opposed to the monotonous misery endured by most britons
It was a popular vote very much in the sense of "lets kick out the foreigners and make our country great again" when it turned out these foreigners were the ones keeping the country running.
I was born and raised in the UK so I've had first-hand the joys of watching infighting politicians and local beaurocray slowly destroying the UK. My wife and I were looking at our finances the other day and we both realised that we can't afford to live in this country anymore. We're both university graduates who in any other European country would have good prospects. We plan on leaving the UK once I've finished my PhD....
Graduate salaries have been decimated by globalisation and tech in every Western country. Wages have not kept with house price inflation for this reason. If I’m an employer looking to hire a graduate & the work can be done anywhere, do I go for eg a Britain who expects £20K, a Hungarian who’ll take £15K or an African who’s happy to take £7K? You may think that life is better in European countries but their unemployment rates (particularly graduate unemployment rates) are much, much higher than the UK as are income taxes. There’s a glut of graduates worldwide so key skills are what matter now - more than ever. Italy & Greece produce the highest number of law graduates but the only jobs available are for olive pickers so they have 2 choices - 1. Sit on mama’s sofa or 2. emigrate.
@@dcoughla681 By your logic, every developer in Europe wouldn't find a job, because in other countries the workforce is cheaper. American Developer are among the most expensive. How come that they're not all replaced with cheaper developers from “cheaper” countries? According to your logic, everybody working online would be easily replaceable.
From an American on the outside looking in, the idea that the UK without London would be as poor as *Mississippi*(and that even with it, it's in the same class as Alabama) is legitimately the most horrifying news I've heard from that country. Good god.
0:42 "...chemists" ayo what lmao I didn't realize you Brits had local chemists chillin at the corner market and that they were staples of a well rounded community
On the housing shortage - this guy is spot on. I know this because I put the housing crisis on the map. I was the chief spokesman for the Home Builders Federation and found that in 2002, fewer homes were built than in any year since 1924 (excluding WW2). The Observer ran it as their front page, it carried on in the news everywhere and two months the Blair government said it was their "number one priority". And nothing's happened because every government runs scared of the NIMBY lobby because they're older, already have a home, don't want their view spoiled and vote more than young people. And here's the result....
Not without reason though. For millions of people, the house is their retirement plan - it's their big store of wealth. So if house prices actually fall, it's a new disaster. The government can't let that happen, so they have just tried to keep the increase down to an acceptably slow pace. It's why we got policies like Help to Buy - outright subsidising first-time home buyers with a pile of government cash. Good for first-time buyers who otherwise couldn't afford anything, but it just helps keep the prices rising.
What a coincidence, I just watched a video of a 9 year old British girl ranting about the price of ice cream, and then my favorite British man comes back to his channel ranting about Brits
If I may be so bold - I cannot help but notice, that the UK more closely resembles the Soviet Union, during its twilight years than it realises. In the 1980s, the USSR had an extensive surveillance system, gerontocracy, falling living standards, decrepit infrastructure, class division, human capital flight, increasingly authoritarian laws, and stagnant economic performance. Granted the UK still has a ways to go before it reaches full Soviet status, however, the Tories are speedrunning the nation, and Labour is hardly an obstacle to this playthrough, if the Tories get their national service instituted, the UK is just millimeters away from being the reincarnation of the USSR with British characteristics, it's no wonder why Eastern Europeans are fleeing the nation, they can see what's happening, because they've seen it before.
There's a book that compares the USSR in its last years to the UK currently, it's called Late Soviet Britain. I've been meaning to read it for a while.
The UK and the West in general is worse off than the USSR because of immigration and millions of Muslim invaders. The Soviet Union survived the horrors of Communism. The same can't be said for the West which has displaced its own nation with hostile militant invaders for cheap labor and virtue signaling "diversity is our strength!"
When my dad started as a town planner, the UK built entire new towns full of green parks with sustainable transport and homes average people could afford. All at zero net cost to the taxpayer. By the time he retired, he was battling racist boomers to get half a dozen dismal, cramped, unaffordable houses at a time. He felt so demoralized, having in his youth truly believed he was helping people live better lives. It's good to see someone call attention to the root cause of so much misery and challenge our slide into impoverished Nimbystan.
Also the part were pensioners did earn more than the people working means they won't be able to afford pension when the current and new working ages want to retire He is sadly right the country is pretty much doomed
Sunak proudly declaring that he's taking funding away from "deprived urban areas," and giving them to wealthy areas like its the good and right thing to do is truly an insane thing to hear. What the fuck?
aaaaand things like that are why robin hood if you read about him in the historical texts written by those in power at the time is portrayed as a hanous criminal... kinda just history repeating itself here.
Many European countries have or has recently introduced mandatory conscription for young people however - with positive effects on integration, providing useful skills, networking with peers from all over the country and social classes as well as boosting national/civil defense at a lower cost.
@@Fluxwux with an alternative to service such as the red cross, it could be a decent policy. unfortunately the roll out in britain will be dire. even the small armed forces we have live in inadequate housing.
@@FluxwuxI guarantee you nobody except old people thinks mandatory conscription (which is just a euphemism for slavery) is a good idea. I get one shot at life. It should be up to me alone to decide how I want to spend it. If some idiot wants to “get useful skills and network” they can voluntarily join the military on their own. Don’t drag me into it against my will.
@@Fluxwux also comes with such negative effects as being thrown into any future war and possibly dying thousands of miles away without a choice or come back riddled with PTSD and get a moldy flat for your service
The army and all the volunteer services that will take on all these people haven’t got the capacity to take on hundreds of teenagers anyway. Plus the volunteers won’t want to do it anyway. The ambulances don’t want 30 people making tea, and the army don’t want people who don’t want to fire a gun and are only there because their parents forced them to.
As someone from a former Eastern Bloc country, I have heard many horror stories from my relatives and older coworkers on how incredibly awful and unlivable the 90s were due to economic shock therapy, privatization, austerity, crime, homelessness, government dysfunction, lack of services etc. I am actually quite shook that a wealthy Western country can not only blindfoldedly walk towards the same Yeltsinist decay, but actively keep voting for it for a decade and a half.
@@Carl-hs420a Voting inside the european union should require citizenship and having paid income tax. This way only people who are actually effected and effect the economy will choose.
We lived communism. And hearing about it is not like living it. There are very stark differences in general politics between western and eastern Europe, and this is one of the primary reasons why. We (eastern europeans) are either from a country that still lives within the shadow of that leviathan, with political leaders the same as old soviet puppet leaders, or from a country who successfully escaped, and is now warning as many others as it can. Western europeans simply never lived it, and so to us it can look crazy how they keep actively voting for their own decline.
They're using their secret neoliberal technique of claiming to reduce spending when they're actually diverting public funds to their wealthy friends and selling off all the public services.
30:26 As a Swede hearing Swedish healthcare be brought up as a good example makes me wanna die a bit. Sure the actual treatment you get is good (and free) but I'd be lying if I didn't also say that we are having a nation wide healthcare crisis where hospitals barely keep open due to costs and overworked staff.
Lmao imagine, your system is still that much better, even when in a crisis that Icelanders are still routinely sent to Sweden for healthcare because of a lack of specialists
The Spanish national healthcare system thrives on a steady influx from Latin American healthcare workers who are willing to work for sub par salaries (average median income for a specialist medical doctor being around 2500 euros/dollars per month; less than 2000 per month if you're a nurse). and that's before taxes
It's almost like they were created to be anti-green anything. Like a rich p-do setting up a children's charity in a third world country to get access to kids under the guise of helping them...
no its framed incorrectly.. so Solar energy in England is not super effective.. as im sure you can imagine, therefore they reject these projects in favour of others
why have renewable energy when you can take payments from oil and coal companies and ensure renewables never happen and you keep your job because you are fighting the good fight against oil and coal companies (but never actually do anything)
I emigrated to the Netherlands 23 years ago to pursue a Master's degree in genetic epidemiology. Back then, and for a few years afterward, we looked up to the UK as THE place where groundbreaking discoveries were made. We eagerly anticipated the next big breakthrough every day. Our top professors hailed from the UK, and the most influential scientific papers came from UK-based research groups. But everything changed. The funding dwindled, the precision decreased, and the time and people dedicated to the field lessened. The UK is no longer a leading country in health sciences. Now, countries in Europe such as Germany, the Netherlands, and even France and Spain, are outperforming the Brits. The landscape of health sciences has shifted, and Europe is leading the charge.
💯… this nation could have a Swiss-style system, as could the USA. THE USA,s own govt (NIH) lists Switzerland as the TOP healthcare system, including on all measures (including fairness of accessibility: not only quality of care) in the WORLD. They saved me from dying after criminal negligence at a U.S. hospital, which billed nearly a million dollars… all of it clawed back and/or denied bc my “care” caused me to nearly die, and I’d arrived actually healthy with some person claiming I needed to have my health checked on… all to easy to do in large US cities to persons legally competent to subsequently refuse care. I nearly died bc of an action taken within 12 hours or less. I wish the money was handed directly to me. What remains of my actual health and other aspects of my life is a shell of what it was. My - no filter. I guess I’m feeling truly down. I’m normally private… I don’t even click “like” on videos ordinarily bc I do not wish to feed algorithms.
We would literally still be in the EU if it wasn't for the lie of Brexit dealing with immigration. Now we are out of the EU, the immigration never stopped, and it was all for fucking nothing.
I kinda felt this first hand. My wife is leading EU cardiologist. Attending, organizing and chairing regular committees in the field. Several years ago she would visit London on regular basis. And Oxford book of Cardiology was the main almanac of most recent cardiology guidelines. It was basically a bible for cardiology. Nowdays - work from UK is not that strong.. And most of the conferences and guideline tracking moved to EU.
It's a good video, it really is, but as you would expect of so many topics and themes covered: Britmonkey not being an Expert shows. His little rant about Waterreserves kidna contradicts the Water-Video-Essays by Some-More-News and Andrew Millison. @SensiStarToaster
A couple people close to me work as doctors for the Western Cape Health Department, and it's actually amazing how much our country at the bottom of the world can do with what little we have (compared to the likes of Britain). Transplant wait times are generally lower, if you go to a public health facility you will generally get served on the same day, the state covers the appointment with the GP. It's not perfect but it's something we should be proud of as south africans
@@HarrDarr If anything, that'd pull wages down, not up. Stop trying to justify our fucking decline. We need to accept our country has been turned into a pile of shit by the political class and fix it.
friend lives right round the corner from the poundland in sheffield at the start, it really can be desolate. And seeing that clip of someone asking for a wednesday gp appointment and being told to call back, when I was told to call earlier in the morning if I wanted to get an appointment in the next two weeks, at 9:45am, the lines opened at 8:30am, I had been on hold for an hour and 15 minutes. That was when I learned that the only way to get an appointment was to turn up at their door at 8:30 and talk to the receptionist, which worked every time.
Thing is this is what the British public wanted and voted for. You can claim they’re being misled and lied to all you want. Maybe they are! But even when that’s explained to them , as it has been over and over, they still want and vote for this. So lie in your bed.
In Hindsight getting sent to Australia for stealing a loaf of bread was not really a punishment.
It wasn’t a prison ship that transported them. It was a lifeboat.
Thanks Britain 🇬🇧
To be fair, things aren't great here either. We're doing better than Britain, but we are also dealing with one of the worst housing affordability crisis's in the world.
Australia isn't doing much better tons of people don't have homes and live in cars and there's Asians everywhere because of mass immigration..
To think about it it was them who did contribute quite a portion on the economy. @@spottyty
A perfectly balanced legal system with no exploits indeed...
didnt expect you popping into this comment section!
spiff for PM 😮
Sup spiffingbrit! Love your videos
dam i didnt expect to see you here
It's a happy surprise to see you here, but this time I'm afraid no amount of Yorkshire Tea can solve all problems in this video...
"UK is just a 3rd world country attached to London" 2019
Not really no, it is not in the best condition right now but it’s still comfortably a first world country
Yes.
It’s comfy enough in all the care homes my council keeps on building literally the only development they ever do
@StrikeBolteafc give it time, UK is like a failson crackhead that still hasn't sold his matress and holds onto the few remaining teeth, but it's obvious where it's going.
Hey, theres a lotta areas that do a lotta shit.
My grandma, Evelyn Robinson, died in March of 2023 because the NHS knew of her mouth cancer and didn’t provide treatment until a month after.
She was the most kind and generous people i’ve ever known, kind to the point where she was nice towards people who would happily manipulate her kindness, and now she’s dead, and could have been saved if it weren’t for the NHS’s incompetency.
Why the delay?
@@jurtra9090tory austerity > no funding > lower nhs capacity > waiting lists
Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are on a plane, Sunak looked at Starmer, chuckled, and said, "You know, I could throw £1,000 out of the window right now and make somebody happy."
Starmer shrugged his shoulders and replied, "I could throw twenty £50 notes out of the window and make twenty people happy."
Hearing their exchange, the pilot said to his co-pilot, I could throw both of them out of the window and make 64 million people happy!"
Underrated comment 😂
Good patter
Ah, I got retro vibes for another certain joke, the punch line for which was "We've got plenty of those in my country". LOL
Replace those names with "Clinton and Biden" and I heard a version of this joke told by many a cranky millionaire here in TX...
This one was way funnier because I agree with the politics 😂
@@amosbackstrom5366 why Clinton and Biden? Surely Biden and Trump or Clinton and Dole / Bush, no?
Man even as a non British person this is infuriating to watch, what a joke of a government.
I...kinda feel proud of being south american, I mean, we also have a shitty public healthcare system and all...well, he said about covid...
*RECEBA BRAZIL MELHOR DO MUNDO CARALHO*
*BRITAIN 200K DEAD ONLY WE 700K OF COVID SIUUUUU*
*BRAZIL FIRST FIRST FIRST ONLY SECOND TO AMERICA*
It happens every single time communism takes the reigns.
Ikr I’m struggling to watch this because my blood is boiling and I’m not even british
You have to fact check a bunch of this stuff. Lots of missing context.
Its like the politicians take on any issue. You will need to go look at the opposite side of all these arguments in reality.
@@johnhandy3483 concurrent parties have known about the effects these policies have had and still gone along with them. The government is incompetent and vicious. The UK is being ran into the ground by an aristocracy again.
optimistic British man made a very negative video.
we're fucked
you people are living in a good place thats why you don't understand whats hard time is.... from the looks of it seems like a small setback , everything will be alright
Hi, from South africa 🇿🇦 .
@@bmqww223no offence to you but this attitude is literally how countries get worse “we don’t have it as bad as other countries so we are fine” meanwhile ignoring the evident downwards trend. A perfect example is Canadian healthcare anytime any improvements are suggested they are met with extreme hostility because people don’t want an “American” system and now there are millions who don’t have regular access to a personal doctor.
@@bmqww223 What an idiotic mentality "others have it worse so i shouldn't improve my position" really speaks volumes about the kind of person you are...
@@jaimay125yep. I’m English, I have Crohn’s disease.
When I started receiving regular care, it was maintained, I was well kept. Now I’m going in for my my first appointment since 2021 😀
In time, like all countries that smother their young people, those with education will leave, Britain will experience horrible brain drain. It will be a country of pensioners with no one to pay for the cost
Amerika is in the same boat. Besides; america is the proverbial nut that hasn't rolled far from the uk tree. This anglo"appeasement / apologising gentlemen mentality/ culture" is why the rest of the World is aggressively taking over the West .
Nah....; the Pensioners will have to pay it and end up living in cardboard boxes while their new "non-white overlords" live in luxury. But hey; isn't this what western white-guilt appeasers and apologists fantasize about in the first place?
"Britain may be the first country in history to impose sanctions on itself" - James o'Brien
Argentina: observe
America blocked all exports to all foreign countries, which caused the war of 1812, but it essentially is a sanction on itself.
Britain colonised itself.
I'm pretty sure James O'brien is part of the problem.
I mean, we blockaded an entire half of ourself for 4 years after instituting a huge tarrif on everything coming into the country
The usual joke goes the UK is a former world power. At this point the UK might become a former first world country.
Many countries eager to follow that trend too. Now being 3rd world country right now doesn't seem so bad only up from there while the rest of the modern world crashes.
It is like UK is actively driving itself into doom, taking the road to destruction and collapse of the nation.
And people keep voting against their interests because they are racist it's mind-blowing @@NineSeptims
I really wish people would stop misusing that term
@neolordie everything racist these days huh 🤡
I'm french and i'm mad right now... If the UK goes to shit, who am I supposed to dunk on? There's no flavour anymore
There’s always the Germans
The Americans? The Dutch and Belgians are always up to no good. You are French you guys complain about everything that’s not French
Ne faîtes jamais confiance aux Belges, ils prévoient toujours votre chute
@@MrJimheeren Oh yeah right, because in case of France they skip the complainig and sacrifice some poor parisian car to the god of fire right away
Enjoy it. You won.
I'm Japanese. Japan was bad during the lost decade and the effects are still felt today..........When I first saw this video, I thought it was a joke. It looked like North Korea in the 90's. Terrible things can happen to anyone and hope the UK can recover from its wounds.
We can't. The globalists are importing millions of non whites who despise us and bleed us dry in benefits. We are taxed into poverty to pay for them. Tax on tax on tax
Blooming heck! Don't insult the DPRK.
its really bad bro, if any jobs for an artist open up, please let me know so i can escape
Why do you want UK to recover. The uk as lapdog of the US is source of evil in the world
@@Zerpentsa6598 DPRK sucks ok
Eastern european here.
2023 was the first year since the collapse of the soviet union that more people returned from UK than immigrated away to it.
I don't think Covid is the (only) reason
Is that true? Lol
I'm Polish and I've never seen as much people coming back from UK than I last few years @@mokisan
It's aldo because the developing world is rising, while the west is in turn facing a very bad time.
@@mokisan as a Polish who currently lives in the UK I can only tell from my own experience. At my workplace I haven't seen any (Polish) newcomers for at least 4 years or so, but pretty much half of the people I worked with for years, left. There's also a quite substantial group (including me) who plans to leave once either their kids finish mid-school / become adults, and/or once they pay their mortgage off. My friend who works for a recruitment company has also seen a downward trend in last 5 years. There was an uptick of workers from Romania, but that pond also quickly dried out. Simply speaking, current perspectives of living and thriving in the UK are looking ... bleak, to put it bluntly. It's such a shame as I honestly fell in love with this open-air ethnographic museum of Europe.
Same thing is happening in Ireland. A lot of the Poles are returning home to Poland. I know a good few Poles who collectively are planning to return to Poland lol.
HOLY FUCK, I DIDNT KNOW IT WAS THAT BAD?? I (a czech citizen) have just visited England a few months back, and the whole time I was thinking: damn, do these guys just not have public infrastructure? Like why is there such a lack of benches, litter bins and people? I had no clue a former superpower and a modern western nation has people dying of malnutrition. Thats just.... mad. I litteraly live a post-socialist country and we are doing good, even with the prices of everything rising (fucking kleptocratic polititians and corpo-bastards). Damn Britain, you really fell from grace...
The Czech Republic is a way nicer country than Britain now.
English person here I am planning to move to the czech republic in the near future
@@paulbobbo5022 hey me too!
@@paulbobbo5022 Really? That is ambitious - are you planning on learning the Czech language or do you plan on managing with English here?
@@TheKetinaFrench here, eastern Europe's currently very appealing, although I'm obviously in the extreme minority. Less for monetary reasons though, but yeah. Eastern Europe is getting attractive :>.
And if I move it'll be to learn the language too. It'll depend where I find jobs for me *is in applied maths to logistics/optimization problems*
I'm American and I am angry, and I don't even live in Britain. Your future as a nation has been stolen, ripped from your hands. And I honestly hope the youth take their country back from those who don't deserve it anymore.
Well that's what happens when a country doesn't do social investments for years; you know, like the republicans would if they could. You aren't so far away from that fate; between corrupt democrats and billionaire backed republicans.
Their Future has been stolen in more ways than one. The Brittish native people are literally 37% of the population in London for example.
yeah ngl I'm escaping to either the US or Ireland when I can to avoid living here, it's just depressing
@@isaacmcareavey237what happened to “trump this, biden that” “no culture”💀😭 lmao yall had failing country and still were talking shi online😭 like atl americas gunna be here in 10 years😂🤣😂🤣😭😭
@@bizzarehubbs America has her own problems I wont deny that, but I see now that they are far more manageable than what I have seen from Britain today.
And don’t forget, rickets is back! That’s how bad malnutrition is in the UK. Not seen since the 1800s. Eat your heart out, Charles Dickens.
Wow, thanks for sharing this.
What not even my 3 world country in Latin America have that….
Charles Dickens is rolling in his grave right now.
Despite the conservatives being the center of the video, I like how BritMonkey still criticizes the rest of the UK parties for putting Britain in the sorry state it's in
I like he picked on the Green Party. The biggest hypocrites… the anti-nuclear, anti-solar, anti-windfarm party
Politicians suck anywhere you look. Ya got optimists on one side who think everything will be alright if they just go this way, and you got pessimists on the other side who think everything will go wrong if they don't stay in the way they've been going. Both sides end up ruining culture, economy, government, and military when they need to forget ideology and start looking at things pragmatically, realistically, and with a sense of moralism.
Sure, having a welfare state is very, very difficult and doesn't work for most countries, but going in the opposite direction, maximizing efficiency and keeping costs as low as possible is just going to lead to greed and indifference.
The people of the western world expect services that we simply cannot afford, at least not now. At the same time, the Government which says they'll help proceeds to not help in any way. We're entitled, and can't accept that the world simply doesn't conform to us. And we expect the Government to somehow get better my voting in the same people (On both sides), over and over again.
We need economists, administrators, and decent, good, people to get elected in local communities, 'county' communities, 'states', and of course congress/parliament, and prime minister/president.
Blaming the conservatives for increasing government debt is stupid, even the graph they use shows it rising at a far higher rate with labour, and staying at that lower rate until the pandemic.
they all have the same polices, that they get from the same think tanks and just reword it slightly to appeal to their voter base. the politicians all have the same background educated at the same universities with the same institutionalised retardedness that's stifled growth and innovation since the industrial revolution. Expecting anything different at this point is very wishful thinking.
@@zekehatcher2196 "Having a welfare state is very difficult and doesn't work in most countries."
Key here being "countries" as in places led by governments with vested interests to not make it work.
My guy has officially convinced me the UK is the worst developed country in the world
developed?
Country?
It's not
I already thought this, but the video has confirmed my belief. The UK never recovered from World War 2 and the collapse of its empire, it just took Thatcher to really make the rot become obvious.
what about greece
i remember as a Lithuanian in my family were in a transit trip through Britain in 2017 during Brexit- my dad got "interrogated" by some form of border officer who asked him "Are you planning to sneak in to the country?" He said "In a few years, you'll be begging us to sneak in to our country!"
I laughed back then. but now it's honestly sad to see how bad it went
How the turn tables
I mean, to be fair Lithuania is on the path of falling apart as well, outside the big two cities. Even there things are at best 'going OK' I guess...Things do look pretty decent on paper, because turns out a country with a first world level of education that is pretty poor while also having overall pretty widespread english speaking skills in its youth is a prime place for other countries to set up local offices in, while local companies are kinda struggling, as soon as a country where its cheaper to move those offices to shows up, then our economy is gonna take a nose dive
I love your father XD
i really hope russia doesn't roll into lithuania like they did in ukraine
for now i prefer to stay in the UK
but in the long run if there is solid, stable peace the lithuania could be a much better option!
I’m in this boat! Lithuania is a country which I’ve fallen in love with recently and I’d really love to move there. The tricky thing would be finding a job with only a basic level of the language
When I was younger I didn't understand how fast things can degrade. Buildings, buses, signage, roads, computers, internet connections, plumbing... All of it can go from state-of-the-art to decrepit very quickly without continual investment. And like all good things, it's more efficient to keep it in shape than to start from the bottom of the barrel.
There's a positive side to this though. Things can also get better very fast. Sure, it might not be as ideal as keeping already great infrastructure and services in shape, but it isn't as hard as you might think. All it takes is a decent government with political will. Not sure if that is an option in Britain right now though...
You guys built a wholeass UNDERSEA TUNNEL TO FRANCE in 1986, and now struggle to build a 3 mile subway under the Thames. What is going on?
"you guys"?
French and other European nationals want a word with you.
because the french and workers from overseas did the work not the sh1tish.
🙏@@ab-ym3bf
Because it was a multinational project. More apt would be: UK INVENTED THE RAILWAY but couldn't build a new line connecting three cities. It was more expensive than India's space project and was cancelled anyway.
diversity insanity, liberal snobbery and no spiritual connection with the land.
"The UK being a Bulgaria attached to a Hedge fund in London"
Hey but what did Bulgaria deserve to be insulted like this?
Bulgaria is the poorest EU member.
@@seneca983 you don't say. A small mountainous country, that has spend the last 600 years either as part of the Ottomans or the Russians.
Truth be told, it could have been much worse than that
Have you seen Sofia mate? Looks like india with a lot of concrete
@@seneca983 because it has been robbed again and again by countries like Britain. Bulgaria had been the plaything for other countries due to its strong geographic location.
@@Retheraqstop advocating for Bulgaria, it is the poorest EU member, and this is the consequence - it gets ***** on.
Britian is so bad that Northern Ireland joining Ireland sounds like they're being rescued from a burning collapsing building
Ireland is also a dump. Just tax dodging companies make Ireland look wealthy on paper.
It's a country with one train an hour between it's two largest cities (none of which go to the major airports).
Oh! That is a brutal and accurate metaphor.
That would be amazing, I would love to see a United ireland
Like east Germany reconnecting with West Germany
Living in NI, I used to be a Unionist, but there is nothing in the UK I want to be a part of anymore.
I'm from Hong Kong. One of my friends ran away to Britain for freedom, riches, and a "superior" culture. He came back to Hong Kong after a year. Nowadays, he goes to mainland China often - something he NEVER did before - and doesn't want to see the West contain it. Good job, Britain. Very good job.
China is the last place anyone with a a working brain would want to go to. Tofu Dreg is proof of the corruption and horrific state of affairs... China is literally falling apart.
>MFW "THE WEST HAS FALLEN" Posters were right
Imagine going BACK to Hong Kong because it was better than Britain
@monroe7532 Democracy is overrated. Look where it got Britain
@@cyberninjazero5659careful what you wish for.
Something to add to the story of MF DOOM's time at the hospital before his death, his wife had added that "he had been unable to alert medical staff to his deteriorating condition as his 'buzzer' was out of reach", as well as "he had been placed in a room containing an 'old metal desk' and books, saying the room appeared to be 'a hospital room a very long time ago' ".
She also said that he literally collapsed after struggling to breathe and trying to get out of his bed after complaining (can't give exact word because the source LeedsLive is a pain in the ass to use).
It's grim how quickly they destroyed his entire life due to the incompetence of the government.
At what point does something escalate to neglectful homicide? Because it feels like what happened to MF DOOM definitely falls on the worse side of that line.
America killed him,he had no business going back there. He was fully Americanized and they screwed him.
He was in the UK at the time of his death?
@@dantheman4543 Yes, in Leeds
@@tjenadonn6158 Doesn't fall into it if you just avoid the situation entirely, which is what they did for about 2 years after his death and even then gave the most PR answer ever of "oops sorry about that we'll 'investigate' into it, all good yeah?"
I'm German and even I am horrified by the bureaucratic mess the UK made.
probably you don't know french bureaucratie. you would be in nervous breakdown...
Look no further than your own reality, you got your socialist government that allows any migrants invade your country, hike your taxes and there's less and less jobs .
Every single thing mentioned in the video happens in Germany. Exactly the same issues.
You'd be surprised how efficient German bureaucracy looks through the eyes of the entire rest of europe.
@@magisterczopka6350 But Britain is ~years ahead on the curve. There still is hope for us Germs.
As a French dude, I can't even rejoice my sworn enemies are in trouble... This all is just shocking
Your white enemies is being replaced by another population
As an Irishman I salivate over taking Northern Ireland
Until I realise I’d be the one to fix it!🤣
Because France is in as bad if not worse position.
@constantinethecataphract. Cope.
@@constantinethecataphract5949pretty sure France has the brightest future of any western European country
Brilliant video. I live in NZ. We've got a lot of similar problems.
NZ is a giant retirement village. No young person can afford a home. None of my mates have started a family and we're all about 26 years old now. The old people degrade the youth while showing hardly any sympathy to our struggle.
I graduated right when COVID-19 hit. I couldn't find a job at the time, so I chose to work at a late-night pharmacy doing checkout work for a bit of money. It was a massive wake-up call. I'll never forget the complete disregard for the youth that took place at the time. No one hosted parties anymore, and people stopped socialising. We were forced to stay inside for safety reasons rather than determine our own fate. We were treated like babies that couldn't know any better.
We desperately need a global revolution. Our time on this earth is ticking away and if we let these old farts have their way then we'll have nothing to show for it.
Thankfully the adults are back in charge now bruv.
We’ve gone from “is Britain really as poor as Mississippi” to “is Mississippi really as poor as Britain?”
Mississippi has always been, adjusted for taxes and other Europe-specific mandatory payments (social security) etc. that don't count as taxes in Europe, richer than any European country bigger than Monaco. Way richer than Norway, Switzerland, Ireland etc. This is simply a fact, the US is just that rich.
@@bestchannelintheworld I’d need a source to back up the notion that Mississippi had always been richer than every European country larger than Monaco After taxes and transfers. The GDP per capita data doesn’t seem to bare that out.
@@deriznohappehquite I mean... Mississippi was considered *really* wealthy back in the days when Africans were considered property, not people (so official records might be kind of f*cked). But also, this was back when most of the world was an agricultural economy---an industry which Mississippi has always specialized in. So it doesn't really surprise me.
That sounds like someone who’s never lived a day in Mississippi. A third of the people there are impoverished
@@bestchannelintheworld Sounds extremely dubious to me. Can you provide any references for this claim?
Whenever a RUclipsr leaves for a considerable period of time, you either get a good ending where they have been working on a massive project and make a glorious return, or you get the bad ending where you never hear from them again.
Today my friends, we got the good ending.
Fr hearing all them shi talking brits abt america is over lmao they done for💀😭 like atl we gunna be around in 10 years😭😭😭😭
I'm used to RUclipsrs leaving for 8 years, then returning with a 4 minute video like nothing happened.
Or the worst ending
They return as a furry
This one of the best video essays I've ever seen on youtube
Dude they're gonna whack him for this video for sure
as an American, seeing the state of Britain right now is like seeing your alcoholic dad's mugshot in the newspaper
Well this is what Republican plan
Wait until project 2025 is in action and you’ll see far worse
@@pi3830 did you miss the part with the socialist building regulation screwing things up or what
its nothing like in this video. he just shows the worst parts. quite sure you can do that in amaerica too.
@@brtcobra It's bad, but you're right, he did sort of not show to what extent this is and how and so forth
I lived in London when i was 16 20 years ago, it was undoubtedly the coolest City and always wondered how it could work so well for such size. The underground was one of my favourite "attractions", i used to take it and explore the city on the weekends, dont remember feeling unsafe. I visited 2 years ago, London lost its luster... Made me sad , somehow depressed. Kids wont know what has been taken away from them (and all of us too). The most concerning thing is that the whole world is apparently anxious to follow that path...
THIS is what actual patriotism looks like. Offering concrete, constructive criticism, instead of jingoism and appeal to nostalgia, a.k.a burying one’s head in the sand
Idk if i care a about being patriotic when i cant get anything to eat man.
You know what, the guy who flies to the colorado mountain resort every year looks like he has some fat on his bones.
Give some credit to ostriches, even they aren't stupid enough to do that.
Nationalism is that
It's just criticism, not constructive, since he himself said he doesn't know what to do to fix it. But yeah, you can really feel the passion ooze out of this video
there is a little bit of appealing to nostalgia and jingoism in there to be fair. But mostly constructive and thought out criticism
British people love Monty Python so much they turned their political landscape into a sketch. A silly walk towards ruin
Or the British government love 40k Imperium so much that they model themselves after the Administratum, giving the facts that 40k was made in Nottingham.
they have a mr bean impersonator as a PM back then
'a silly walk towards ruin' is 10/10
@@oxey_ 7/5 with rice
With a government grant, they will make it a lot more silly
>claim to be a 2000 year old civilization
>fails to dig a hole in the ground
their back hurts.
what happened to the mistress of the seas? Can’t even dig a water hole
@@cr1ym I guess the lady of the lake has no lake no more
*Julius Caesar has entered the chat.*
Where did you pull the 2000 number from? British civilization is quite a bit older.
Look, I am from Indonesia, and this is horrifying. It's really sad and infuriating to see all the economic growth potential thrown away by out of touch and incompetent politicians. I hope Britain changes for the best in the following years, best wishes
As an Argentine, I feel no happiness when i look at Britain rotting like it is. It's a shame your government is actively doing the worst possible things to ruin your economy and i hope it can change soon.
Can you guys try and take the Falklands again?
We're racing you guys to the bottom, and I reckon we might still win this one
Well, they finally learned how to destroy a country from you.
I doubt invading the Falklands would be too difficult these days
@@harrydent8182 Nah, i'd rather a game of footy :)
Watching this as a Romanian is so strange. It's like you guys are going through what Eastern European countries went through in the 90s up until we joined the EU. We're not rich by any means, but at least we've had quite significant improvements over the last years.
Good luck to you guys, hope you'll manage to figure things out!
My parents are Welsh, and Romanian; I've always wanted to go back to Wales or Romania, but given I've been hearing great things about the progress Romania's making and not so much Wales.... Yeah.
It does actually appear to an outsider that eastern Europe in general is on the rise
We paid for your way of life 😂
@@NewMinority If we ever rejoin the EU in 40 years the way things are going, they'll probably be paying ours
I'm Hungarian but I've lived in England for so long and continue too for the education. I. Cannot. Wait. To. Go. Back. Every time I go to Hungary it's like, wow people are actually happy? I'm happy? Things are pretty?
It's 2030, and droves of Brits head to Poland and Romania to clean toilets and pick potatoes. Scrub scrub!
We need more cheap labor in EU lel
Why teach French in primary school when you can have Polish? I would love hiring some random bloke from Birmingham clean my house and get more than his degree allows him to.
And I hope they're treated exactly as the majority treated the immigrants here. I'm saddened and ashamed to be British.
The language they teach here is horrible, although that could be because quarter of the students already know a second language and the rest are English and believe that everyone else should learn English and they shouldn’t learn A language
honestly, i'll take it.
America's doing our best to catch up to Britain in this tomfoolery.
Your there already.
@@terryparenteau1200it’s you’re and we have literally been the most powerful country in the world for 80 years
"hey lets cut funds from policing, medical services, local councils, schools, housing & public transport, then spend an ungodly amount of money on half a train line, leave the largest economic area on earth, funnel money into an African country criticized for its human rights violations, arbitrarily limit what can be built or who can become a doctor"
"Why is the country going to shit & why does everyone hate my political party?"
We should blame the poors!
@@OhAweand the immigrants, even though we are the party that failed to manage this. Oh, and let’s not talk about the dirty money problem in London.
“the trans people definitely did this, not us”
“what do you mean the country is in the dumps? get money lol”
Yeah importing millions of inmigrants was not tbe best idea lol @@souvikrc4499
ENGLISH FOR THE ENGLISH
NONE O THAT NONSENSE FOR NONCES
END OF
I'm the first of my entire family to ever pass more than 2 GCSEs, passed my A-Levels, when to University of Sussex to study Physics. Thought I'd just about managed to break the poverty cycle. December of first year, after house hunting non stop since freshers week, I couldn't afford a piss-stained, mould-infested cupboard with a maintenance loan and working 25+ hours a week. Was forced to drop out and move back home, and it's not just me. A lot of my school mates all went to uni together, and every single one of them - barring 2 (from high income families who could afford to subsidise them) - have dropped out one by one. I-m now earning £8 an hour and I feel lucky cos it took me 5 months to find a job.
Honestly don't know how long the young people of this country are going to just sit back and get fucked over and over again before shit really hits the fan.
the young people can't do much. as aging demographics increases, the median voting age aka giving more power to tory voting pension grandpas. the only way out of this is some insane person like milei, who comes in and abolishes all of the current regulations, so that the economy can start functioning again.
i feel bad for you. my perspective of what an average wage shuld be is probsbly sqewed since im from norway but 8pound/h is worse than my traine wage thats only 60% of a normal wage and i didn't even go to universety
Damn
bro - leave the country. Try and move to scandinavia, they literally love clever english immigrants to buff their workforce
Can you do a degree in a cheaper northern area or get on a degree apprenticeship? There are telecom trainee jobs too! Stick in there mate
Oh yeah, the Brits have _that kind_ of "green party". I had already forgotten and was rather happy in that state...
All environmentalists are like that. It’s because of them we don’t have nuclear power plants all across the country.
I knew they wanted out of NATO, but I didn't know *how* dumb they were.
@@ad_astra5 excuse me *what???*
@@TaylorfromPapaLouie correction as of Google. They ditched it last year in favor of no nukes defence only, but prior to that they suggested that NATO was harmful to peace
@@ad_astra5 sounds eerily similar to our Green Party, and its leader Jill Stein, who is awfully chummy with Russia...
honestly the conservatives sound more like "old people abvocates" than right-wingers
"We live in a retirement home" fucking nailed it my friend. This cuts so close to the truth it hurts
Welcome to Ja... I meant Britian
And a crappybone too
American here, our government is a retirement home as well
My guy dropped a hour and a half long video explaining that Britain is dump when all he had to do was post a 20 second video of Birmingham
Sad but true.
lmao 🤣
What's wrong with Birmingham?
@@Rainman97x what isn't wrong with birmingham
I just woke up in a f*cking steaming mood yea
"We are literally paying to train other countries' doctors and nurses"
Yeah, welcome to the second world, buddy. I'm sure all Eastern Europeans can relate.
yeah, exactly what happens in Czech Rebublic since the split in 1991
But now eastern Europeans are considering to come go back since the country saw it's mistakes and made it an environment worth happily living
@@danielnight5057 Good joke.
@@danielnight5057 giving you a little hindsight: most of them will never come back. Most of the immigration to the more developed countries consists of 20-30 year old people, in the prime of their lives, ready to work, live and create a family. By the time when any of the Eastern European country will get better (better than the previously considered "developed countries" AT LEAST), they will consider those developed countries as their homes and most likely will not give up on their new lives for the sake of just coming back. As a Ukrainian who will soon be studying in a university in Bratislava, this does tear my heart apart knowing that these people, these little cogs in the nation's economy are leaving and I'm one of them, because my father is worried and afraid that mobilisation might get too far in our country, looking at when approximately this horrific war will end. I wholeheartedly support my country and wish it all the best and I will keep every single string that binds me with my Homeland, but I can't be sure if all of my compatriots would share the same point of view. The war will end, but the lives go on.
Yup!
As an American, fully aware of the shithole our country has become, this makes me legitimately sad. The destruction of these once great nations has to be deliberate, right?!
Absolutely
OY VEY!
ayo
Yep. The people with the noses
Its collectively so... the wealth got too divided. Very few in the race to be millionairs or more care to distribute their wealth, as it hinders their progress. Its a new level of greed and its filthy
I once saw someone say "if you don't pay attention to the news, your life becomes happier" yet it's impossible to avoid it when you can't leave your house without bearing witness to the crimes against humanity committed by the Conservatives. You can't even stay INSIDE your house, because it's impossible to afford one.
That's like going to sleep to escape your real life problems. Your dreams may be pleasant but sooner or later you will have to wake up. And in this case, it will be a rude awakening.
don't think others will do better right now, the problem is imbedded in your society especially, noblesse obligé, you'd know the younger ones as "trustafarians" the people that own all your homes, all major companies and are the people in charge of your institutions cause they don't need to strive for active income. you blame conservatives but have you noticed that labour doesn't class you by income or standard of living but by race, sex, orientation,... allmost as if they are shifting blame to anyone that looks a certain way.
I find it impossible to believe that the Labour party will be our saviours. They have no policies.
EXACTLY! DITTO ❤
MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY. AVOID THE NEWS ETC ETC.
I was working in the NHS in 2016 and the communication system collapsed because a generic email was sent out and someone pressed 'reply all' and a ton of people responded to them telling them they had pressed 'reply all' and it crashed the email system for 3 days
🤣🤣🤣🤣
keksimus maximus
@@wewillrise3663 "the biggest cake" lol
Hahah, the legendary reply all. I have seen it couple of times in IT company. The funniest were the people replying with: "Dont reply all". to all again. Starting a chain e-mail lasting days.
@jx3409 that's exactly what happened. It was incredible how something so seemingly insignificant can cripple an entire organization
I'm Hungarian, I used to live in the UK between 2014 and 2019. I have worked in IT, had a salary of 40K my wife made 35K. We have decided to move back to Hungary after Brexit because the atmosphere became too toxic + it is easier to raise kids and buy a home here than in London. Now in 2024 we have our own newly built 3 bedroom semi-detached house, mortgage is around 380 GBP per month. (We own two paid off cars 5+10 y.o.). Both our kids are now in private education and will be able to go to university for free. Everybody I know from all around Europe (Poles, Romanians, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Slovaks) have left the UK and moved back home with kids.
I'm so sad it has came to this, we loved the UK and wanted to live there forever, not because of the money but because of how good the country is and how nice the people are. It breaks my heart to see how the British society is erroding.
i never understood why eastern europeans hated their countries and move west many years ago (and now you all regret it). i look at the wikipedia and all your countries are social democracies with the same or even better welfare systems and livelihood than western europe now, like you just mentioned in your comment.
the tides are turning it seems.
@@nerd2544 Money, for many people its pretty good to move for some time into western country and have 3 times bigger salary for the same job and then move back and buy things they wouldn´t be able to ever afford if they never left.
@@tefky7964 not to mention that during the 2000s, many of those countries have just joined the EU and just transitioned away from communism, which was a long and rocky process
Why is everybody with kids and a family and at the same time.. we have an army of men fhat dont even know the touch of a woman.. what the hell is going on ?
@@nerd2544 Most Eastern European countries went through very tough period in the 90s and up to mid 2000s. Sometimes you had to work for a pittance, and, even then, your would receive your pay 2-3 months later. In a cold climate it makes things even worse. It was not an ability to buy more shit what concerned the most who emigrated, it was being stuck and poor. 100k Brits emigrated to New York in the 1970s(according to New York Museum). Why did they do it? Economy, perhaps?
Greetings from Germany!
I see that you're ~10 years ahead of us. Fun times ahead!
‘Yes. But it’d be much worse under Labour’:
my 65 year old parents the day they came within hours of losing a huge chunk of their pensions thanks to Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng doing their ‘wreck the economy speedrun’.
I hate that "defence"
It's so much easier to convince people that "they are evil" instead of "we're better" political discussion devolve into that everywhere I see. It's no different here
That episode was such a train wreck, but the basic idea of cutting taxes, which were and remain at historic highs, to spawn a boom could have at least worked short term (albeit ending in a bigger bust longer term, unless we actually taxed away the resultant land price gains).
More than the substance and strategy the major failing was in the slapdash panicked implementation.
1 Kwateng's mini budget was sprung out of nowhere with no consultation, even with the cabinet
2 Even more crucially The B of E were not consulted, when the £ tanked they had to step in and the £ recovered all of it's losses BUT Bailey, no doubt royally pissed off, put a 2 week time limit on support so in the end the government had to fold. Ironically Truss had already talked about taking control of the B of E before, yet decided to try and put the cart before the horse, either in the hope the horse would just capitulate or under the presumption FX/currency markets wouldn't have reacted so strongly. Bailey kept his job, Truss lost to a lettuce.
So we got sent back to RIchi's' safe pair of hands' and left Starmer's timid visionless leadership with even more excuses to not try anything that might possibly rattle markets.
@@schumanhumanyou made a mistake in your comment. Cutting taxes for the rich, literally never worked out well. It's putting extra taxes on ordinaire people for a tax releave on the ultra rich
Could be true. It’s a race to the bottom with first past the post and an atomized society. Neither represent you and it doesn’t matter which sociopath you vote for in a lying contest.
The culturally and ethnically homogenous country that existed in the past no longer does. Regardless who you vote for they are more concerned with their friends in WEF or Brussels and they think of you as much as they do about some dude in Pakistan; not at all.
This really furthers the theory that the rest of the world was fine in Children of Men and Britain was just like that
Lmao
Litterly the plot of we happy few
lol
Except it wasn't based on the beginning of the story, but yeah apart from that the UK is headed in that direction, if not there already.
@@memevondank1197At this point, We Happy Few may be better. Sure, Wellington Wells is an authoritarian nightmare and everything is exponentially going to shit, but at least you've got Uncle Jack and free drugs.
The NHS part hit hard for me, my grandad is anemic, we learnt this a few months ago when he was rushed to hospital because it got so bad.
Saturday morning I visit the hospital for the first time, and get info on his condition, they don't know what happened but they mention his blood pressure hasn't stopped soaring upward, the same story the day after, it was INSANELY high, he wasn't doing well. Luckily my uncle had noticed that no one had given my grandad any of his regular medication, they had it, but the doctor, who was off for the weekend, was apparently the only one who was able to readministor his medicine?
after a back and forth, one of the nurses were able to get him his BLOOD PRESSURE medicine, he might have died that night had me and my uncle not advocated for him. The fact that he would have been safer at home is insane.
NHS gave my father medication that killed him.
When you have a better chance at survival lying on the street at the mercy of ordinary civilians versus being in a hospital bed with doctors "taking care of you"
Seems it's the standard operating procedure for anyone elderly - to screw up their medication either get their blood pressure out of whack to cause a stroke, or give them analgesics to cause dehydration and pretend their confusion is a urinary tract infection.
Because most of the doctors in the NHS are from 3rd world counties and not up to the same standard of high end British educated doctors who move to foreign countries because they get paid way more money than what the NHS would pay them working in the private sector.
@@royalcrowntowing2464 xenophobic reply, god, I've been to a British university, they aren't that special.
The issue is again systematic, his British doctor was off all weekend, nothing to do with immigrants.
Everytime i rewatch this video I get an overwhelming sense of morbidity. I feel sick and I feel tired. The areas in my town which seem unsavoury and broken only seem to grow. It's rancid.
Now maybe we have a new government things might be better but we've still got tax breaks on petrol and rising bus prices. Madness.
Yeah they haven't exactly hit the ground running
The reason why 1984 is set in England is because that meant Orwell had to do almost nothing to make it dystopian
Orwell himself admitted that he was influenced by 1948's Britain.
He was 40 years off when it would happen but its happening
Happened.@@theonegopnikwhoprogramsthings
He died in 1950
Fun fact while most assume, he wrote it about the USSR or the (censord) he actually wrote it as a reflection of his time making WWII propaganda
My son has sickle cell disease and comes with a crisis. I called the ambulance because it was an emergency and he needed fluids put into him ASAP to stop the pain getting worse but was told by ambulance that I needed to wait 20mins for the ambulance to arrive. They expected me to wait 20mins with a 2 year old in crisis. I took a taxi and we were in hospital less than 10mins and my son was seen immediately because when the crisis starts it's go go go. We're slowly losing our health system because of greedy politicians who care more about their pockets and Ego boost than actual human beings in need. Their lack of empathy speaks volumes
Slowly? It's already gone
i had a simler thing wiff me a dislocated leg they put me on a 1h wating list then 3h later a ambulance arrived. god i wish i was just carried to the car to go to the hospital. 3h i was just wating in so much pain cud barely string 2 sentences together it was the worst thing ever for me and it was all the politicians fault. your right
Coming from the US, deficit spending is VERY BAD.
DO NOT DO IT, just imperialize again, London is the same as india atp
its not just government greed but having a NHS thats overbloated/overpriced, costing taxpayers far too many millions annually but mostly getting used up by people who quite frankly shouldnt be here and have payed feck all into the system.
I don't get it, you post a graph that shows chronic under investment in the NHS and then another that basically shows nothing and conclude that adopting the us system would be better. Despite the fact that health expenditure is the biggest cause of bankruptcy in the USA. Also the monthly cost of health insurance in USA is £500, plus there is a daily limit for what you can claim. People come away from a hospital stay with £20k debt despite having insurance. Read "bitter pill: why medical bills are killing us" the US spends about 20% of GDP on healthcare
Are we not going to talk about how it takes £10,000 to paint a bit of cement black and white to look like a chess board apparently
Shudder to think how much it costs to paint rainbow colors everywhere for a month
It costs free in my nation!
Are they using perfect dark paint for each square?
Because of the Town and Country Planning Act…
*Slams paper on table*
That's a gigantic ?? - blunder, double question mark move. Can't anyone already do that with a bucket of paint?
Neoliberalism destroys everything it touches. This all started with Thatcher and her friend FA Hayek.
"Liberty. Prosperity. Opportunity. These are things worth fighting for and modern Britain offers none of them." The cherry on the top.
Lolzer! What cobblers! After eighteen years living in france, paris exactly, I see way more freedom, prosperity, and oppertunity in the uk!..
Id checks everywhere in france, pulled over and patted down..
Prosperity? 83% of french earn just over minimum wage...
Oppertunity? Setup your own company in france, cost you 4k€ in the bank to satisfy the bank and authorities, and you will pay TAX before you've earned a single euro!...
Lolza !
@@jonathansimmons5353Well said. This is a psyop. Every country is being g bludgeoned this way and nothing destroys a country quicker than defeatism
So fucking true
But hey, you all got your 400,000 migrants. Where do you want your 4000000 migrants? Your not racist right? So you want 40000000 migrants? Fewer white than ever but no replacement totally!
@@jonathansimmons5353 Leave, that is what people need to start doing. Show by the numbers. They want to flood the country with immigrants that ruin it. Just leave to a better run country. French people could resettle in one of the many colonies set up in the past...
"They shoved all the funding into deprived areas and that needed to be undone" what the fuck. Deprived of what, funding?
the most "mask off" thing that was said in the video. They really do not care about anyone but their own
I wish people here in the UK would understand this. While this is a decent video, even BM misses the point, thinking this is all "Tory incompetence". That's not the bottom truth though. This _is_ a case of malice beyond incompetence. Tories are an elite who hate you, they seek pure wealth transfer to their class. In their eyes, you _should be a serf_ , your life is entirely dispensable. Understand this.
Wow. Even Putler scared to say such things out loud.
I hope your politics and country will change for better.
Everyone wishes to get something for their taxes. Paying high taxes for it only to go to work shy NEETS is not what tories want obviously.
@@soylentgreenb You want workshy neets? Go to the house of commons. Standing up and banging on about bendy bananas is not a job
“We could have landed Britain on the moon 75 times with the amount of money it took to build a three mile long tunnel.” Can’t make this up 💀💀💀
Not even build!
Get the approval to build.
I knew when he announced that that the braindead audience would think he said "build," simply because he coyly explained 2x and not 6x that it wasn't actually built.
@@WilhelmScreamer Not even get approval to build. Research the possibility of building and get denied.
Actually, pay to Indians.
They will land on your behalf 750 times.
Just 1/10 of the cost.😅
Forming committees to research the possibility of getting approval
I'm a benefits advisor in Newcastle. I genuinely have been to countless tribunals because the government refuses to give disabled people the minimum amount of money needed to survive.
I once went to tribunal (remember, this is a court case with a judge and a doctor) to defend my client's disability, that she couldn't walk.
She had her legs amputated 20 years prior.
The government hold onto all the money they can, and then do fuck all with it.
So GDP goes up 500 billion, average wages dont go up at all, and government spending on public resources collapses. I wonder where this wealth and productivity is going. It cant certainly be the rich, who definitely cant be taxed.
The GDP growth is just from an increase in consumers via mass migration, GDP per capita has stagnated
Of course, it's all of those bloody foreigners! (I'm kidding)
Not accounting for high amounts of population rise.
Nominal wages (not adjusted for inflation) have increased, but real wages (inflation adjusted) have stagnated, which could be due to increased prices on imported goods for example - assuming British productivity growth has not kept up with growth in exporting nations. If you're genuinely curious about why real wages have stagnated in Britain, then it's probably best to read about it instead of jumping to the most conspiratorial explanation.
You're beating the wrong horse. People are by nature greedy.
UK being a bureaucratic hellhole is killing everyone, and you are envying the rich.
I feel like in Britain you’d get in more trouble if you hurt someone trying to murder you than the person trying to murder you.
That’s actually true, if you kill someone who broke into your house and tried to hurt you, you would be put in jail for manslaughter
I believe the reason this happens is because hurting your attacker is seen by UK Gov as a violation of the government's authority. You are (in their eyes) essentially usurping them, because they should be the sole authority to give out punishments for crimes.
Better judged by 12 than carried by 6.
@@philsonhtc2871 agreed mate, but in a sane society you shouldn’t get punished for defending yourself within reason. At that point you’re in clown world territory.
@@j.7501 Well you shouldn't be bloody murdering people, how is it surprising that you go to jail for murder?
It's bleak, eh?
I live in one of the only places in the country that has any investment (Manchester Centre), and the number of my old school friends who are dead against ANYTHING improving (no new houses, no new restaurants, no new bike lanes, no run clubs, no yoga studios...) is fucking depressing.
It's like we WANT to be left behind by the world.
Japan's wages didn't grow for decades because they chose to. ours didn't grow because we're incompetent.
Hearing about US tech and finance salaries of 500k+ whilst we argue over train drivers' £60k being "overpaid" because they inconvenienced us a couple times with strikes...
Idk man
You need economic growth not just social spending
'friends who are dead against ANYTHING improving' This right here seems to be the national mood wherever you go.
Things have decayed to a point that any idea of improvement moves us a step away from some mythical time when we were great as a nation and doing fine. But in the minds of Brits (myself included) we moan, whinge and get angry down the pub and then do nothing. It's as if the large majority of Brits from the working and middle class don't wish to change anything if it means that neighbour we don't like also benefits from changes or improvements. We're a polite bunch but that goes hand in hand with being a horrifically servile society that waits for the next person to come along and change everything for the better without having to lift a finger.
Whilst younger people might be more willing to take to the streets, all it takes is for the newspapers (of which 70% are run by three people) to fire headline after headline and Westminster politicians will wake up from their alcohol and cocaine induced haze to exclaim 'TIME FOR SOME MORE FASCISM TODAY!! Oh and benefits are bad'.
I've wondered about the future of this country for a while now, but the more I look at the mainstream parties (Cons, labour, lib dems, reform) the more I think none of them have a single clue what to do. All their policies are superfluous (a little bit more for the NHS, cut more benefits, defund councils more) when there is a network of big financial players in the city, bankers, oligarchs and oil barons from far flung places; major property players and old gents clubs made up entirely of eton, oxford and Cambridge grads who tug at strings from diffused angles all with the same interest: make as much money as possible, hide it away from the tax man and make sure their friends in the news are still singing the same song (whether it's the war on motorists, trans mania, civil service bad or benefit scroungers). I know there are many government failures too but my prior point has been something I've read about a lot recently so excuse the foil rustling in the background. What was my point? Errrr.... I guess spoons is still cheap so that's alright for me boys!
No the reason for Japans and other countries lack wage growth and growth in general is all due to demographic decline.
The worst part is that both the Uk and japan are choosing stagnation. Theu've been taught to fear deficits and the national debt even though government deficits = private sector surpluses and the national debt simply accounts for peoples assets and savings. More people need to read The Deficit Myth or watch that new documentary "finding the money"
@@linmal2242 it is due to deflstion, currently there has been no demand growth from consumers , meaning that your wages are going up
Moved to Netherlands from shitehole London 13 years ago. I’m never going back
What do you do over there and how are things going.
I am surprised that the UK can have so many authoritarian & surveillance laws, and is still completely incapable of putting away the people those laws were intended to stop.
That’s called appearance over substance
As one UK police chief said, they didnt investigate the rape claims because the perpetrator was black and they didnt want to look racist.
Hows that possible? Its ineptitude. In America we must clear 10x that amount of crimes at least. Were STILL building prisons.
Be glad at least those want to go over to that gloomy island as no one else has such intentions. The UK is doomed. It is always overestimation of the matters just like tonight’s football-a bitter loss for England, a bitter loss for the UK.
what he omitted to mention is police staff were cut by 20,000 in tory austerity and tories had only just fulfilled the 20,000 more officers target which didnt actually add any help its just reset it LOL police have severe funding issues rn and the entire criminal justice system does in general. 1/3 of cps staff have been working there dor less than 3 years, 70% of judges are privately educated, prisons had CRC contracts that had to be broken because the CRCs were SO bad. Victim attrition is horrific bc CPS only let the police charge offenders that they know they can safely successfully prosecute hence why rapists aren’t charged they focus on small low level easy to prosecute crimes bc its cheaper and easier. Police public relations are nonexistent due to corruption and misconduct that would horrify a nazi. Hillsborough, stephen lawrence, sarah everad etc; are just a few reasons that EVERYONE just doesnt trust the police. Casey review just proved all of that too, uk police were found to be institutionally misogynistic racist and homophobic. And on top of that a general
Misunderstanding of how the cjs works also is jn play bc unless you specifically know that police do not charge criminals and that the CPS does youre not gonna know. People assume its like the USA where police choose to prosecute and accuse when in reality the cps was introduced in the 80s to stop corruption bc seperating police from prosecution meant there was a seperate non government agency presiding over criminal cases to ensure police werent just well lying essentially LOL.
This video should be mandatory watching for anyone under the age of 30 in this country. We’re constantly told we don’t pull our weight and that we are complaining despite being in the “luckiest most fortunate and pampered” generation. Understanding that is bile and is just a stock response as an excuse to ignore deep rooted problems that will affect US, the young people in this country not the pensioners. Such an important video
So basically the UK is run by the HOA no wonder why you can't get any development done. I worked on a development next to an established HOA and I was harassed by them for just having survey equipment out to make measurements
It’d be one thing if they were using all that control to actually… use that control. But no. Just sit on it like a washed out game company sits on its legacy franchises.
@@wildfire9280 you're always improving learning developing or you are decaying and dying
I'm Argentine, and I'm shocked to see what your going through, it's kind of unbelievable,......to think that the world sees us, Argentina as a third world country, I don't think that , after your video ,I think I live in the best place on earth, lovely weather, lots of land to build no mortgage and we even have good public hospitals. I love my country. God bless u.
The numbers used by economists are pretty much meaningless to everyday life. You're lucky to be somewhere that ordinary people can have a good life as opposed to the monotonous misery endured by most britons
This makes it feel like the Brexit was a way to make it harder for young people to flee to EU states.
They don’t have that much forethought and planning
It was a popular vote very much in the sense of "lets kick out the foreigners and make our country great again" when it turned out these foreigners were the ones keeping the country running.
Meaning there was no political scheme. Just old boomers drunk on nationalistic pride
@@quartzking3997Oh... Oh they do. This was preplanned buddy.
maybe also to keep out the polish and balts fleeing to the uk from eu states
I was born and raised in the UK so I've had first-hand the joys of watching infighting politicians and local beaurocray slowly destroying the UK. My wife and I were looking at our finances the other day and we both realised that we can't afford to live in this country anymore. We're both university graduates who in any other European country would have good prospects. We plan on leaving the UK once I've finished my PhD....
Good for u
Graduate salaries have been decimated by globalisation and tech in every Western country. Wages have not kept with house price inflation for this reason. If I’m an employer looking to hire a graduate & the work can be done anywhere, do I go for eg a Britain who expects £20K, a Hungarian who’ll take £15K or an African who’s happy to take £7K? You may think that life is better in European countries but their unemployment rates (particularly graduate unemployment rates) are much, much higher than the UK as are income taxes. There’s a glut of graduates worldwide so key skills are what matter now - more than ever. Italy & Greece produce the highest number of law graduates but the only jobs available are for olive pickers so they have 2 choices - 1. Sit on mama’s sofa or 2. emigrate.
@@dcoughla681 By your logic, every developer in Europe wouldn't find a job, because in other countries the workforce is cheaper. American Developer are among the most expensive. How come that they're not all replaced with cheaper developers from “cheaper” countries? According to your logic, everybody working online would be easily replaceable.
That makes sense. If you mind my asking, where are you planning to go?
@@SebastianFiele You’ll still find companies who will take the cheapest developers.
From an American on the outside looking in, the idea that the UK without London would be as poor as *Mississippi*(and that even with it, it's in the same class as Alabama) is legitimately the most horrifying news I've heard from that country. Good god.
Exactly, the country is too overcentalized.
Man, I guess the phrase we should be using is “Thank God for the UK”
Yeah that's *bad* holy shit.
chilling
It's similar to other European countries lol
0:42 "...chemists" ayo what lmao I didn't realize you Brits had local chemists chillin at the corner market and that they were staples of a well rounded community
Lol Chemist is what we call Pharmacists.
Hearing that MF Doom died because of a failing health care system has to be the saddest thing I’ve ever heard. All caps the NHS!
RIP.
On the housing shortage - this guy is spot on. I know this because I put the housing crisis on the map. I was the chief spokesman for the Home Builders Federation and found that in 2002, fewer homes were built than in any year since 1924 (excluding WW2).
The Observer ran it as their front page, it carried on in the news everywhere and two months the Blair government said it was their "number one priority". And nothing's happened because every government runs scared of the NIMBY lobby because they're older, already have a home, don't want their view spoiled and vote more than young people. And here's the result....
You should start a RUclips channel, or contact an interviewer and make your case to a new generation. You're a legend!
Just like US the housing shortage is not real. Just a cover it for the bubble.
There's also a population crisis
CityNerd has a video on the worst NIMBY places in the US. They are all in California. I hadn't expected that.
Not without reason though. For millions of people, the house is their retirement plan - it's their big store of wealth. So if house prices actually fall, it's a new disaster. The government can't let that happen, so they have just tried to keep the increase down to an acceptably slow pace. It's why we got policies like Help to Buy - outright subsidising first-time home buyers with a pile of government cash. Good for first-time buyers who otherwise couldn't afford anything, but it just helps keep the prices rising.
Man, I can only imagine how fast Orwell is spinning in his grave over how much Britain has cracked down on civil liberties.
He knew the the culture this attitude would bring
@@soptop1641 A really nasty one to say the least.
@@nathanseper8738 intentionally cruel I'd call it
Fast enough that if you hooked him up to a generator it'd solve at least the energy problems, lol.
It's not like he wasnt writing about his own experiences
What a coincidence, I just watched a video of a 9 year old British girl ranting about the price of ice cream, and then my favorite British man comes back to his channel ranting about Brits
man when the kids are conscious enough to rant about prices you done messed up
@@ivans2404 ong like all them shi talkin brits online meed a reality check lmfaoooo💀😭😭 like atl americas not doing that shitty🤣💀🤣😂🤣🤣💀😭😭😂😂😭
I know it's bloody 9 pound for just two ice creams in the UK, and they only take bloody card.
ohh i've seen the vid lol
If shes so worried about the price of ice cream wait till she hears about global warming
If I may be so bold - I cannot help but notice, that the UK more closely resembles the Soviet Union, during its twilight years than it realises. In the 1980s, the USSR had an extensive surveillance system, gerontocracy, falling living standards, decrepit infrastructure, class division, human capital flight, increasingly authoritarian laws, and stagnant economic performance. Granted the UK still has a ways to go before it reaches full Soviet status, however, the Tories are speedrunning the nation, and Labour is hardly an obstacle to this playthrough, if the Tories get their national service instituted, the UK is just millimeters away from being the reincarnation of the USSR with British characteristics, it's no wonder why Eastern Europeans are fleeing the nation, they can see what's happening, because they've seen it before.
I’ve been thinking that recently. How are we a modern country when we’re not allowed to protest? Are we china now? I hate it so much.
There's a book that compares the USSR in its last years to the UK currently, it's called Late Soviet Britain. I've been meaning to read it for a while.
The UK and the West in general is worse off than the USSR because of immigration and millions of Muslim invaders. The Soviet Union survived the horrors of Communism. The same can't be said for the West which has displaced its own nation with hostile militant invaders for cheap labor and virtue signaling "diversity is our strength!"
Makes sense, we do have a communist planning permission system
Check out Adam Curtis commentary on that topic, he makes the same point
When my dad started as a town planner, the UK built entire new towns full of green parks with sustainable transport and homes average people could afford. All at zero net cost to the taxpayer. By the time he retired, he was battling racist boomers to get half a dozen dismal, cramped, unaffordable houses at a time. He felt so demoralized, having in his youth truly believed he was helping people live better lives.
It's good to see someone call attention to the root cause of so much misery and challenge our slide into impoverished Nimbystan.
It's almost like importing 1/3rd of your population has a negative effect on societal trust. Nah couldn't be
He did help people get better lives but the issues is those he helped is now actively working to undo it. "Fuck you, got mine."
@derpasaurus155 when the people you are helping aren't even English, you and your children are demonized, why would you?
Also the part were pensioners did earn more than the people working means they won't be able to afford pension when the current and new working ages want to retire
He is sadly right the country is pretty much doomed
racist boomers my arse. you suggest we import the third world even more ?
….. none of the politicians, whichever flavour, are interested in anything but themselves, make no mistake.
Sunak proudly declaring that he's taking funding away from "deprived urban areas," and giving them to wealthy areas like its the good and right thing to do is truly an insane thing to hear.
What the fuck?
At least in the US you couldn’t say that out loud.
aaaaand things like that are why robin hood if you read about him in the historical texts written by those in power at the time is portrayed as a hanous criminal... kinda just history repeating itself here.
@@napoleon2564Well he didn't know he was being filmed. Says a lot
@Cptn_Candy do. do you think robin hood was real?
Useless carbon emitters
The national service is the most outrageous policy proposal ever. Young people are treated like cattle in the UK.
Many European countries have or has recently introduced mandatory conscription for young people however - with positive effects on integration, providing useful skills, networking with peers from all over the country and social classes as well as boosting national/civil defense at a lower cost.
@@Fluxwux with an alternative to service such as the red cross, it could be a decent policy. unfortunately the roll out in britain will be dire. even the small armed forces we have live in inadequate housing.
@@FluxwuxI guarantee you nobody except old people thinks mandatory conscription (which is just a euphemism for slavery) is a good idea. I get one shot at life. It should be up to me alone to decide how I want to spend it. If some idiot wants to “get useful skills and network” they can voluntarily join the military on their own. Don’t drag me into it against my will.
@@Fluxwux also comes with such negative effects as being thrown into any future war and possibly dying thousands of miles away without a choice
or come back riddled with PTSD and get a moldy flat for your service
The army and all the volunteer services that will take on all these people haven’t got the capacity to take on hundreds of teenagers anyway.
Plus the volunteers won’t want to do it anyway. The ambulances don’t want 30 people making tea, and the army don’t want people who don’t want to fire a gun and are only there because their parents forced them to.
As someone from a former Eastern Bloc country, I have heard many horror stories from my relatives and older coworkers on how incredibly awful and unlivable the 90s were due to economic shock therapy, privatization, austerity, crime, homelessness, government dysfunction, lack of services etc.
I am actually quite shook that a wealthy Western country can not only blindfoldedly walk towards the same Yeltsinist decay, but actively keep voting for it for a decade and a half.
Same happens in other western European countries. The Netherlands and Sweden for example.
It's what happens when you don't have a maximum voting age.
@@Carl-hs420a Voting inside the european union should require citizenship and having paid income tax. This way only people who are actually effected and effect the economy will choose.
Worst part of democracy is you have to look at the cunts on the tele spouting their bull knowing "People chose this"
We lived communism. And hearing about it is not like living it. There are very stark differences in general politics between western and eastern Europe, and this is one of the primary reasons why. We (eastern europeans) are either from a country that still lives within the shadow of that leviathan, with political leaders the same as old soviet puppet leaders, or from a country who successfully escaped, and is now warning as many others as it can.
Western europeans simply never lived it, and so to us it can look crazy how they keep actively voting for their own decline.
Thanks
UK tories are literally that one Ronald Reagan meme:
HEY LIBERALS
*triples national debt*
They're using their secret neoliberal technique of claiming to reduce spending when they're actually diverting public funds to their wealthy friends and selling off all the public services.
he shit on blair and atlee too
Classic Polarism, blame the other side for everything that goes wrong.
@@dynamitrix1006Blair and Attlee were far better than the tories will ever be
@@VeilVametia Enlightened Centrist.
30:26 As a Swede hearing Swedish healthcare be brought up as a good example makes me wanna die a bit. Sure the actual treatment you get is good (and free) but I'd be lying if I didn't also say that we are having a nation wide healthcare crisis where hospitals barely keep open due to costs and overworked staff.
Austrian here, our hospitals are largely fine, but GPs in rural areas are a bit thin and optometrists and dentists could have shorter waiting times.
Lmao imagine, your system is still that much better, even when in a crisis that Icelanders are still routinely sent to Sweden for healthcare because of a lack of specialists
The Spanish national healthcare system thrives on a steady influx from Latin American healthcare workers who are willing to work for sub par salaries (average median income for a specialist medical doctor being around 2500 euros/dollars per month; less than 2000 per month if you're a nurse). and that's before taxes
Cries in American
How to fix it
Focus on the health of the natives and give zero for the other people.
Easy way to cut the wait times
Thoroughly stressed at the Green Party blocking any and every form of renewable energy
It's almost like they were created to be anti-green anything. Like a rich p-do setting up a children's charity in a third world country to get access to kids under the guise of helping them...
no its framed incorrectly.. so Solar energy in England is not super effective.. as im sure you can imagine, therefore they reject these projects in favour of others
We could have nuclear but that also gets blocked.
why have renewable energy when you can take payments from oil and coal companies and ensure renewables never happen and you keep your job because you are fighting the good fight against oil and coal companies (but never actually do anything)
@@Sebatticus they also reject wind turbines because they scare cows and chop birds
Thanks man. Superb vid. Hope millions of more people will watch this. Def worth it. 🍻
I emigrated to the Netherlands 23 years ago to pursue a Master's degree in genetic epidemiology. Back then, and for a few years afterward, we looked up to the UK as THE place where groundbreaking discoveries were made. We eagerly anticipated the next big breakthrough every day. Our top professors hailed from the UK, and the most influential scientific papers came from UK-based research groups.
But everything changed. The funding dwindled, the precision decreased, and the time and people dedicated to the field lessened. The UK is no longer a leading country in health sciences. Now, countries in Europe such as Germany, the Netherlands, and even France and Spain, are outperforming the Brits.
The landscape of health sciences has shifted, and Europe is leading the charge.
Let's do a Brexit, yey!
But you got the headoffice of SHELL back for it. Must be a great trade.
💯… this nation could have a Swiss-style system, as could the USA. THE USA,s own govt (NIH) lists Switzerland as the TOP healthcare system, including on all measures (including fairness of accessibility: not only quality of care) in the WORLD. They saved me from dying after criminal negligence at a U.S. hospital, which billed nearly a million dollars… all of it clawed back and/or denied bc my “care” caused me to nearly die, and I’d arrived actually healthy with some person claiming I needed to have my health checked on… all to easy to do in large US cities to persons legally competent to subsequently refuse care. I nearly died bc of an action taken within 12 hours or less. I wish the money was handed directly to me. What remains of my actual health and other aspects of my life is a shell of what it was. My - no filter. I guess I’m feeling truly down. I’m normally private… I don’t even click “like” on videos ordinarily bc I do not wish to feed algorithms.
We would literally still be in the EU if it wasn't for the lie of Brexit dealing with immigration. Now we are out of the EU, the immigration never stopped, and it was all for fucking nothing.
I kinda felt this first hand. My wife is leading EU cardiologist. Attending, organizing and chairing regular committees in the field. Several years ago she would visit London on regular basis. And Oxford book of Cardiology was the main almanac of most recent cardiology guidelines. It was basically a bible for cardiology.
Nowdays - work from UK is not that strong.. And most of the conferences and guideline tracking moved to EU.
Considering what is going on in Argentina, maybe there's some ancient curse on the Falklands? "Whoever claims this land will suffer"
Not really, the ones to blame are the politicians.
Like Afghanistan
Nope, the only people cursing their countries' economies, are pseudo socialist politicians
The Falkland /Malvinas curse
The ones who infiltrated the banking system... J @@Anon-1870
Damn junior doctors in UK earn less than junior doctors in South Africa and I thought our healthcare system was a mess.
It's a good video, it really is, but as you would expect of so many topics and themes covered: Britmonkey not being an Expert shows. His little rant about Waterreserves kidna contradicts the Water-Video-Essays by Some-More-News and Andrew Millison.
@SensiStarToaster
A couple people close to me work as doctors for the Western Cape Health Department, and it's actually amazing how much our country at the bottom of the world can do with what little we have (compared to the likes of Britain).
Transplant wait times are generally lower, if you go to a public health facility you will generally get served on the same day, the state covers the appointment with the GP. It's not perfect but it's something we should be proud of as south africans
Doctors get free training worth hundreds of thousands . As in all professions, doctors will earn very good money.
yeah but unemployment is over 10 times higher in SA than it is in the UK.
@@HarrDarr If anything, that'd pull wages down, not up. Stop trying to justify our fucking decline. We need to accept our country has been turned into a pile of shit by the political class and fix it.
friend lives right round the corner from the poundland in sheffield at the start, it really can be desolate. And seeing that clip of someone asking for a wednesday gp appointment and being told to call back, when I was told to call earlier in the morning if I wanted to get an appointment in the next two weeks, at 9:45am, the lines opened at 8:30am, I had been on hold for an hour and 15 minutes. That was when I learned that the only way to get an appointment was to turn up at their door at 8:30 and talk to the receptionist, which worked every time.
Being Irish I take no pleasure in seeing how Britain has gone down the toilet, its horrible to see the decimation of the working class there
thank you.
Mainly because we are experiencing a very similar fate from our own Tory government.
Thanks because most of us working class have Irish ancestry I know i do so nice to see you feel bad for us
@@IgnoresTrolls It doesn't matter what party is in power. The enemy who rules over us controls every party.
@@RobMadness so just because you do that means everyone does? do you even know how many people you're actually talking about lol
“I started undoing the funding to deprived urban areas.” The Tories are barely human at this point
Yeah I duno how he said that without being murdered
@@FleetAdmirable this is why politicians surround themselves with other like minded mutants to say what they want to say
It makes some kind of twisted sense, I'm just unsure why they would think saying that out loud would net them any extra votes.
Evil, just evil!
Thing is this is what the British public wanted and voted for. You can claim they’re being misled and lied to all you want. Maybe they are! But even when that’s explained to them , as it has been over and over, they still want and vote for this. So lie in your bed.
Boomers are a luxury the west can no longer afford
Eat the rich before they eat you.
@@ThePlayerOfGames what about the engineers that work hard and get 100k+?
@@dipanwitamandal7289engineers don’t make as much as you think especially in the uk
@@dipanwitamandal7289 engineers who make good money are not "the rich" lmao
@@dipanwitamandal7289tujhe kyu jal rhi hai, Tera jee selection nahi hua kya
6:56 Lol, there are so many flags missing there.
you bet im gonna watch a 90-minute video essay
hellll yeah
yes
we’re white, it’s what we do
And I don't even live in the UK
you're damn right you are