BRITAIN IS A DUMP!!!!!!!!!!!! 

In Hindsight getting sent to Australia for stealing a loaf of bread was not really a punishment.

"UK is just a 3rd world country attached to London" 2019

As a non-Brit, its crazy how a party turned one of the wealthiest nations into a effing retirement home. wtf.

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

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!"

A perfectly balanced legal system with no exploits indeed...

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?

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

My guy has officially convinced me the UK is the worst developed country in the world

"Britain may be the first country in history to impose sanctions on itself" - James o'Brien

ZERO SEATS FOR THE CONSERVATIVES.

I'm 40.. so I do remember a time before the country was a run down, miserable s* hole. I work, I have no debts.. but i'm never going to own my own home. I am a single male so, I have zero chance of a council house. I will private rent untill the day I die. I hate this country and nothing is going to get better. I wish I had the means to leave the UK.

optimistic British man made a very negative video. we're fucked

"Green party opposes green energy" It really is clown world

The UK is in a terrible, terrible state. Our countryside is beautiful, our historical buildings are fantastic. Outside if this we are an Island in a bad way with a seemingly dark future. We have to hope and act for change, for better times though, we have to keep trying to make things better as a society.

How to be Happy: 1. Wake up 2. Go outside 3. Remember you are not british Another day in this beautiful world - typical german saying

Man even as a non British person this is infuriating to watch, what a joke of a government.

The usual joke goes the UK is a former world power. At this point the UK might become a former first world country.

“whether you’re rich or poor, black or white, we’re all equally dead”

The Conservative's record in offic e.. 1. Highest energy bills in Europe, 2. Highest taxes in 70 years. 3. Highest interest rates since 2008. 4. Highest train fares in Europe. 5. Longest waiting lists in NHS history. 6. Raw sewage pumped into rivers. 7. Lowest corporate taxes in 50 years 8. Lowest State Pension in Europe. 9. Highest Immigration both legal and illegal ever. 10. Destroyed the NHS dentist service. 11.Brexit. 12. One failed Prime Minister after another. 13. Worlds shortest in post Prime Minister which created a financial disaster. 14. More corrupt MP's than any other party in parliament. 15. Europe's longest Austerity for the lower paid 16. Highest Council Tax rates in the World 17. Reduced our Armed Forces more than any other G8 country. 18. Highest number of MP's that have been arrested for sexual offences 19. Highest number of MP's that have been sacked for corruption and Fraudulent acts. 20. Voted to allow Bankers to have unlimited bonus's even though the bankers caused the crash of 2008. 21. More libraries closed due to council cuts than any other modern country. 22. Ruined and destroyed the Train services by giving private companies tax payers money as subsidies. 23. Voted against Labours creation of the minimum wage. 24. Wasted billions of Tax payers money on crony PPE contracts for their friends and other Tory donors 25. Sold off 600 Police Stations. 26. Sold off our Courthouses 27. Closed then sold our Fire Stations. 28, Failed to fix - repair our schools 29. Cut spending on youth services 30. Court backlog is at record levels 31. Threw 30,000 pensioners to the wolves during the first wave of the pandemic. 32. Sold off our electrical grid to foreign companies 33. Failed to build new affordable homes 34. Wasted billions on HS2 35. Failed to close Tax Loopholes 36. Failed to build 40 new hospitals, 37. Failed to repair our crumbling roads.

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

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...

Clarksons farm is an eyeopening series.. Clarkson has to jump through so many hoops to do something as basic as growing food.. Years of living on the petrodollar has dulled the brains of British lawmakers.. Now that the petrodollar is being killed off, they cannot cope.

The decline of road quality was the very first thing I noticed after the Tories got in in 2010, especially on motorways. They're still terrible. There are parts of the M62 and M60 I use every day that have potholes in and terrible drainage that floods part of the carriageway whenever it rains... which being in Manchester, is ALL THE GODDAMN TIME! Also, we have Maggie to thank for the state of our phone infrastructure. In the 80's BT were going to replace ALL copper lines with fibre across the whole of the UK, all in one go. They built factories to make the spools of cable, the exchange equipment to handle it all, trained engineers, so on and so forth. Then Maggie said nope, can't do that. It isn't fair that a state organisation can so "unfairly" compete against private companies so they split it up and sold it off. Guess who bought all of the cable and equipment after this, thinking it was actually a good idea? South Korea. Who now have the best internet and telecoms infrastructure in the world. They spent decades and billions building it all out and their economy and quality of life for the average person on the street improved ten fold. Thanks Maggie.

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'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.

I work with the NHS as a translator abroad. Ambulance times are 3 hours on average wait and that's if you're almost dead. Also i had an ambulance crew who wasted 2 hours with a drunk on the street who was lost and didn't knew how to get to the train station. He wasn't in any danger, he had no medical problems that needed urgent care, he was just drunk and lost. The UK is a joke.

As a Pole that lived through the yippy-ya-yay years of capitalism infatuation in the 90's and 00's I'm not quite on board with deregulating building codes altogether. It's only recently that places like Warsaw are civilising themselves from urban chaos and we still get new developments that are horribly poorly planned and will cause of large extra costs for people over future decades. You can't just let people build whatever they want, because it'll lead disgusting eye-sores, no appropriate services and poor infrastructure. I am actually more in favour of government intervention in housing, ideally in the way HDB's are built in Singapore.

Britian is so bad that Northern Ireland joining Ireland sounds like they're being rescued from a burning collapsing building

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

Good god this is depressing. On your own accord you clearly spent a huge amount of time to produce this, well done for being so thorough and getting it completed

I remember being in a lecture hall with lots of British 18 year olds. I was one of the only foreigners. The topic was Criminology. Most of them wanted to send children (very small children) to prison. It was clear I didn't belong.

"The UK being a Bulgaria attached to a Hedge fund in London" Hey but what did Bulgaria deserve to be insulted like this?

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.

32:32 Brits don't spend more out of pocket than Americans. That graph is out-of-pocket expenses as a share of healthcare expenditure. But America's per-person healthcare expenditure is so much higher than the UK's ($12.5k vs $5.5k) that even if Brits pay a slightly higher percentage out of pocket, they're still paying way less money out of pocket.

In France a GP appointment costs 25€ but the patient pays nothing up front as the GP claims a share from French state social security and the patient's complementary health insurance (I pay 60€ per month). All treatment and medicines are at zero cost to end-user. Everything "payments" operates electronically and automatically. 🇫🇷🇪🇺

It's 2030, and droves of Brits head to Poland and Romania to clean toilets and pick potatoes. Scrub scrub!

I'm German and even I am horrified by the bureaucratic mess the UK made.

BritMonkey does not seem to know that we have privatized large chunks of the NHS via the Private Finance Initiatives. This is when the UK government contracts private investors(largely based in the City of London) to fund the NHS and they are payed even more than they invested at taxpayer expense. This is on top of the NHS hiring private contractors to build and run hospitals.

Saw a news story last year of 5 men getting arrested for cracking IPTV streams for Premier League matches. Somehow UK police is better at tracking down internet pirates than burglars and murderers.

"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.

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.

UK politicians have been pushing austerity measures on their people and cutting/under funding social programs and the NHS for years. Austerity only works for the few wealthy at the top and not the citizenry. "Austerity exposed a political faultline in health policy. It’s not the most well-remembered of the NHS’s founding principles, but Nye Bevan was very clear that his health service would be about ‘universalising the best’. He intended that NHS provision be so good, it would eliminate any need to supplement entitlements with insurance, or payments to skip waiting lists. It wasn’t conceived as a safety net, but as a way of collectively ensuring the best possible healthcare for everyone in our society. As with other parts of welfare policy, the impact of austerity has been to transform the NHS into a safety net. In the last ten years, the government has enacted an NHS-wide search for anything that could be badged ‘spare capacity’ or ‘waste’. These services were then cut in the name of ‘efficiency’. The political justification was a leaner public service - ‘world class care, for less’. The reality is that the cuts have gone straight through the bone... A sustained campaign against health workers meant the UK had one of the most stretched workforces in the OECD. The public sector pay freeze, an assault on junior doctor conditions, and reforms to NHS pensions had created a crisis of both recruitment and retention. As of 2019, we were tens of thousands of doctors and nurses short, compared to the kind of staffing levels seen in comparable countries. And austerity-driven cost-saving exercises and bureaucracy had stifled innovation. The Conservatives often presents themselves as the party of innovation and science, but at the turn of the decade, the UK was well behind international standards on implementation of lifesaving technology, medicines, and digital tools. This is pure short-sightedness - it might save a small initial investment, but the long-term costs are felt in less efficient care pathways and the economic cost of a sicker population."

As an Austrian, I have to disagree with your take on smoking in restaurants. While we had this "restaurants can choose" law, it was practically impossible to find a non smoking restaurant (we finally banned indoor smoking in restaurants a couple years ago). The reason was this: every restaurant thought that their customers would go to a competitor of they made their restaurant a non-smoking restaurant. Because most groups always contain at least one smoker, so usually, all the non-smokers didn't want to make the smoker feel bad. Some restaurants built divisions and had a smoking and a non smoking section, but always, always the smoke would leak over to the non-smokers. Because guess what: waiters move around quickly and move the air around with them and of course most of the time there wasn't even a door between those two sections. Result: 95% of restaurants were full of smoke, in all their sections. Anyone who had kids, had asthma, irriable eyes, or simply didn't want to inhale smoke or go home in stinky clothes and in need of an immediate, extended hair wash ENVIED all the other European countries who did better at regulating smoking. Because Austria was actually one of the worst European countries for smoking laws. Everyone else had stricter laws than us. It got so bad, that we got lots and lots of complaints from tourists who were not used to smoke anymore - AND we're a country that depends A LOT on the tourism industry! Which somehow STILL wouldn't convince restaurants, idk why. The situation was just stuck in some sort of tragedy of the commons problem. Where 80% or the population wanted non-smoking restaurants but only about 5% of restaurants actually were non-smoking and those were super hard to find. Restaurants wouldn't advertise this on their homepage and would even actually lie to you if you called them up and inquired. Like "yes, yes, our non-smoking section is totally separate, no smoke is leaking over" and then you arrived there with guests who couldn't or didn't want to go to a smoking establishment and ended up with "oh, sorry, we don't serve the non-smoking section today, only the default = smoking section, because there's not enough guests to warrant opening that run-down back room that we made into the non-smoking section". The entrance and main part of the restaurant was ALWAYS the smoking section. Even if the non-smoking section was actually being served, you had to pass through the front room and bar area that was thick with smoke like nobody can believe and if you wanted to go to the bathroom it was the same. We were all sooo glad when finally that law was changed and there's no indoor smoking anymore. Outdoors only nowadays. And even there, restaurant owners haven't learned. Eg. here in Vienna, 99% of the time the wind comes from the west. You'd imagine anybody with half a brain would organize the smoking and non-smoking outside areas so the non-smokers wouldn't have to sit downwind of the smokers, would you? Naaaah. It's like they do it on purpose to exact revenge for having spent a money on those useless indoor partitions (usually a bit of drywall and a door that was permanently kept open) which then got obsolete when the law changed. Honestly, picking the country with the worst restaurant smoking law as some sort of shining beacon of freedom, yeah, nah, sorry, you're wrong. Our experience here with this was NOT good. Going to restaurants now is MUCH nicer. Yes, I get the whole slippery slope argument but I guess you could draw the line where people are directly affected vs. indirectly. Smoke directly affects other people, so it's ok to ban it in a restaurant. Just like you'd be banned from shitting in the middle of the restaurant and not just on your own table but you smear it over everyone else's table as well. Being obese or smoking at home only indirectly affects other people via public health care costs. This should be managed via monetary incentives. That tax on sugary stuff and highly processed stuff isn't stupid. Because that stuff was often cheaper than normal food. Yes, you should still be able to eat sugary and highly processed stuff, but it shouldn't be the cheapest option. Because then people eat only or mostly that every day. And then you have people being really sick already in their 50s when other countries have people mostly healthy in their 70s. Banning large quantities or stuff or meal deals just because you can buy more is silly. Just make it more expensive if it's crap and give financial incentives to less crappy versions. There's nothing wrong with making a meal deal out of a tuna or chicken sandwich plus an apple and a yogurt. If you want something fried plus chips plus crisps instead, fine, just make it slightly more expensive, done. If you want to have public health care, having crappy food as the default option really doesn't work. There's a really interesting video by Kraut about this. I'm old enough to have been around when people cooked a lot more from scratch and ultra processed stuff wasn't consumed all that often and was more a treat you'd have maybe once a week. We were totally happy back then (70s and 80s) and A LOT more healthy. It's not a bad idea to try and nudge people back to a behavior more like this via an extra tax on crappy stuff. Outright banning it? Nah. But a financial nudge? No problem.

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

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.

"councils being frugal" had me howling. Our local council recently spent £40,000 installing some lights on a small footbridge over a regular 2 lane A road. Frugal - my *rse!

Whilst not undermining the overall message, most of the landscapes you mention as being 'natural' are actually industrial. They are wool factories! The UK has virtually no wilderness left.

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

This really furthers the theory that the rest of the world was fine in Children of Men and Britain was just like that

Its bit of a scandal, what happened to Britain. Same ting is happened to Sweden. Many voted for decades the social demokrats. Only a couple of times, Sweden voted on the right. Here is a list of Sweden's delighted corruption: * All politicians can only need to serve the parliament for 4 years, to get paid for life. * Former PM Göran Persson, an social democrat. He is now a CEO for Swedbank. And he still gets PM salary, even he don't work for the government anymore.

I live in england and the amount of pubs that has closed is unreal

The national service is the most outrageous policy proposal ever. Young people are treated like cattle in the UK.

"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?"

UK has less miles of high speed rail then Serbia..? Living in Serbia, I can only laugh at monumental size of that burn. Edit. All the issues you described could be rounded up to basicly people in power being in position that is direct conflict of interest. If you are a wealthy landlord, you are never going to shoot your wealth in the foot, by making policy of making more affordable homes.. I have no idea how to even approach this and solve it and seems like most of western world is in the same puzzlement..

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.

Whenever a RU-vidr 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.

That was genuinely awesome mate, so well done.

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

British people love Monty Python so much they turned their political landscape into a sketch. A silly walk towards ruin

Uk is not a country, is a disaster 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

And taxes are just rising while millionaires are leaving which causes taxes to rise more which causes more millionaires to leave, this is not looking good.

As a French dude, I can't even rejoice my sworn enemies are in trouble... This all is just shocking

"We live in a retirement home" fucking nailed it my friend. This cuts so close to the truth it hurts

This is a very retro 90s/2000s editing style. I haven't seen something like this in a long time!

that part with rishi openly and proudly boasting about funnelling money away from deprived areas is actually insane, I can't believe how cooked this country is

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

We’ve gone from “is Britain really as poor as Mississippi” to “is Mississippi really as poor as Britain?”

Amazing piece of work. Awesome documentary.fantastic work! Off topic question :How are you editing videos like this? In 1s soo many things happen. From an editing point it's a nightmare , are you doing this manually or there is some kind of automation?

The situation was actually ten time worse than I thought….😰

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.

UK tories are literally that one Ronald Reagan meme: HEY LIBERALS *triples national debt*

We honestly need change, and now. For far too long, we have let the rich and greedy rule over us. Until someone gets into power who actually understands the real struggles we face in our day-to-day lives nothing will improve. Look at the DWP, for example. Thousands have died due to their mistakes and their total lack of regard for the people who genuinely need help but yet they sweep it under the rug!

Well put together video essay, very informative

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

‘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’.

In case anyone is looking for it, the song from 49:39 (It Can't be Done) comes from the short film Great (1975, Bob Godfrey). It's on the Internet Archive and appears at 9:39 in the film.

We had a chance with Corbyn

you bet im gonna watch a 90-minute video essay

“I started undoing the funding to deprived urban areas.” The Tories are barely human at this point

Incredibly well researched. Blew my socks off and confirmed what so many of us know the UK is in deep shit. I emigrated in the1980's as a 23 year old to Scandinavia, Denmark, now Sweden. I left an affluent town in the South East that had no need of foodbanks: now it has two! Good job Micheal!

Wow, ngl you actually made me feel pretty happy to be an American rn. Thanks, mate

"They shoved all the funding into deprived areas and that needed to be undone" what the fuck. Deprived of what, funding?

The Tories didn’t forget that there are people on the other side of those spreadsheets. They simply *do not care.*

Recently the economist released an article and how the government was trying to build a foster home in a quiet suburb for 3 children. The government said they got 65 letters of objection to the home. The local council objected saying it would lead to parked cars on the road would be bad for the look of the area and people might be disturbed from the sounds of car doors and talking. The same article also mentions how high land costs make it really hard to buy anything in populated areas. This is terrible. The article: The sorry story of children in care in England, May 23rd 2024

Please, young people of the UK and all over Europe, rebel. Don’t let our future, our culture and our enjoyment of life being dragged down by a bunch of old people like this. Let’s stand up.

"Liberty. Prosperity. Opportunity. These are things worth fighting for and modern Britain offers none of them." The cherry on the top.

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.

I moved to Australia from th UK 10 years ago and I can say with certainty a few things 1. The UK is borderline a 3rd world country. People accept the norm in the UK for what it is, but its not normal, its poverty. 2. There is Rubbish everywhere, the sign of dying nation. They can even find the money to maintain thier roads and rubbish collection 3. Houses are rediculously expensive in relation to wages, owneing a house is pipe dream for many. Or at least you wont be albe to do it until you are 40 + 3. The media in the UK is the UK's largest threat to democracy. - I have seen with my own eyes , family members fall for the BBC propaganda around elections and wars, misinforming the population so much they are effecitvly neutralised from voting for what will benefit them. 4. The UK will never get any better. Our golden era was 1850 - 1960's. The UK has minimal natural resources and no manufacturing anymore. This is because the policiticans sold out the people of the UK and sent all these jobs to China with promise of higher profits due to lower wage demands. Unfortunatlry the UK i knew and loved is gone, and it will never return. I just try now to position my kids in a better country and position for the future. All western countries are on the decline. I belive Asia is the next place to experience a wealth boom.

As a Hungarian I just find it scary how similar the tori party is to fidesz in pretty much every way

We should build more homes on this field. 'We don't want to build on farm land' -UK politicians Well then we'll build apartment buildings. 'We don't want to build tall buildings'-UK politicians

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.

London Borough of Redbridge is buying houses in places like Hartlepool (nearly 300 miles away) to move residents to because it can’t afford property in its own borough.

Very interesting video! It gave me a lot to ponder and think about!

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

This makes it feel like the Brexit was a way to make it harder for young people to flee to EU states.

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.

Absolutely brilliant. You are spot on with the problems with the planning system. It's exacerbated by the drop in funding for local government - there arent enough case officers

Boomers are a luxury the west can no longer afford

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!