Britain is in Trouble

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[@tobanta]

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

[@cynicallyyours]

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

[@tobanta]

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

[@nekogami87]

> from impoverished Wait, what ?

[@Vesryn215]

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

[@nekogami87]

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

[@finncedar7388]

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

[@glitchy_weasel]

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

[@weebfourg]

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

[@cooltwittertag]

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

[@weebfourg]

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

[@Jimmy-uy1xm]

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

[@angelorobledo1536]

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

[@bitterbatterdog]

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

[@frederz6]

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

[@BananaWasTaken]

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

[@kamekofs_]

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

[@ericjoseph4203]

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

[@wilsonrandolph540]

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

[@sharpasacueball]

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

[@iwiffitthitotonacc4673]

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

[@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917]

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

[@aycoded7840]

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

[@richardmenz3257]

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

[@Inverter222]

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

[@smolpener7430]

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

[@User-kq3od]

​@@smolpener7430 We dont have a freshman year, stop butchering the language we gave you smh.

[@Potatotenkopf]

Coffee Cowmunist, much to think about

[@raemmio2761]

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

[@EpicGamer-yu9qn]

my beans on toast always fall apart

[@Toblex_YT]

True

[@leonardo56324]

It's probably because of the immigrants

[@emma_tm]

buy rich bread

[@wildfire9280]

@@emma_tm You mean white bread?

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

The Tories really messed them up

[@olivercopeland9803]

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

[@aprilruledearth]

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

[@tommangan7]

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

[@vrylongethwood5568]

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

[@olivercopeland9803]

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

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

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

[@MC_heart4]

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

[@taelib1425]

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

[@MC_heart4]

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

[@bunger6813]

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

[@dodoontherocks]

No is the ghosts

[@casuallydone468]

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

[@peacemaster8117]

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

[@talbotsolenberger4434]

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

[@cooltwittertag]

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

[@Greenitthe]

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

[@tomhanks4820]

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

[@sarvashaktimaan7106]

Big A really reading a manifesto.

[@Craby-YT]

The glizzy manifesto

[@TheLethargicWeirdo985]

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

[@bojackhorseman4176]

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

[@Obi_01]

@@bojackhorseman4176😂😂😂

[@A.S._Trunks]

@@bojackhorseman4176 Bait used to be believable.

[@sambmortimer]

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

[@hxhdhhdjdjd8288]

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

[@andyb2028]

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

[@randomshotz13]

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

[@peacemaster8117]

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

[@randomshotz13]

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

[@UsernameLost-z2o]

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

[@quinkana1]

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

[@sstchief1173]

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

[@DonutTrigger]

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

[@Buzzsaw.1103]

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

[@TheEsotericProgrammer]

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

[@bumibomber]

​@@TheEsotericProgrammerwhatthefuck

[@TheEsotericProgrammer]

@@bumibomber myspacekeydoesntwork

[@vrylongethwood5568]

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

[@MagicMonkey96]

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

[@mac_sour]

without? 😂

[@MagicMonkey96]

@@mac_sour compared to other economists, yes

[@mattbenz99]

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

[@samundef3500]

Or, wild idea, both are massive problems.

[@Greenitthe]

Both can be true. Why not both?

[@DavidAndersonKirk]

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

[@YT7mc]

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

[@nolovedrjones9668]

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

[@ianrau6373]

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

[@Greenitthe]

@@nolovedrjones9668 smol pp energy

[@Gandhi_Physique]

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

[@williambbq]

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

[@Anderslaw]

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

[@jpo8920]

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

[@samthecowboy]

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

[@johnathanarcher6999]

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

[@samthecowboy]

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

[@jammed_yam]

big K had a point tbf

[@hendrikd2113]

it was more Engels' thing.

[@jake6509]

@@jammed_yam gonna start calling marx big K

[@NerdJoshua]

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

[@radeklew1]

I'm so tired

[@wholesomeprofilepicture585]

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

[@Thisisthegreatestatofalltime]

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

[@Admiral-General_Aladeen]

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

[@absfocused]

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

[@ChaarGrilled]

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

[@esrynshudder4216]

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

[@Bagel920]

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

[@acid3129]

Send help

[@therearealpacas]

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

[@Hession0Drasha]

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

[@WhatTheHellRS]

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

[@it.snowig]

@BritMonkey mentioned Rahhhhhhh 💯💯💯

[@Dere2727]

The worst thing about the proposed HS2 line is that part of the reason it ran out of money was that we were building open air tunnels to avoid ruining peoples’ views of the countryside in the middle of nowhere

[@red_roy]

Calm down Glizzy Marx

[@wildfire9280]

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

[@timjenkins7075]

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

[@Spoon80085]

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

[@Brandon-cc4ft]

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

[@A-Letter]

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

[@Brandon-cc4ft]

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

[@Firnienarya]

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

[@SergeantShrimp1]

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

[@milos1967]

Troc really is reading off the man of pesto

[@Jakewake52]

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

[@jeremy.oliver]

Britmonkey casually being the goat of Britain crises documentation

[@benzym]

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

[@FaustsKanaal]

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

[@Tomato-Icecream]

glizzy innit

[@Kahoneki]

blessed be thou when atrioc uploads

[@shadowzz8103]

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

[@rudysmith1552]

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

[@shadowzz8103]

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

[@PhoeniX199777]

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

[@thelioc2802]

Love it when big A talks about Britain

[@4ankers]

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

[@crusader3108]

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

[@AGW99-df3yg]

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

[@xap.digital.]

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

[@sciencepod4887]

IN 30 DAYS!!!!

[@AustinJ2]

That clip of Rishi Sunak is insane

[@brandiepop]

a few things as a brit: - its very sad to see working and middle class people be tricked into the idea that the reason they arent rich is the fact immigrants are on the rise. While yes we spend a lot of money on illegal immigrants, it is not nearly the same as we could make by slightly raising taxes on the rich or actually fixing the corrupt systems where it supposedly takes billions for minor civil construction. - I want to be a nuclear engineer after uni and its sad to see so many countries turn against nuclear and I hope that the green party eventually changes their mind on nuclear so they are actually a party worth voting for.

[@melvinhenryson277]

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

[@kat3325]

14:19 too true ☹️

[@emma_tm]

12:25 all the way to the bakery*

[@spencerlindsay4949]

India landing someone on the moon for 75mil shows you exactly what the issue is. The US, UK, etc would spend that type of money on some think tank. They’d spend at least an order of magnitude more to land someone on the moon

[@Str8UpFax]

Atrioc for president? Hes old enough!

[@rllyleel]

highly recommend watching the britain is a dump video. had a section about how this connects to MF DOOMs death

[@thecaledonian7643]

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

[@readmore5888]

Beans on toast… but at what cost

[@cingkole7893]

2:44 BASED!!!

[@oldoneeye]

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

[@josephg2332]

The main problem atm is probably our awful football team

[@mardy3732]

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

[@CampingAvocado]

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

[@aidv8142]

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

[@ActuallyMori]

As someone who lives here: yeah we know

[@Michelle-s2z6l]

Its an issue everywhere.

[@illumistration]

B-Britain is the one in trouble?

[@pasta-and-heroin]

B-Britain san?

[@mogaming163]

9:00 where is Canada? 😅

[@ruben9912]

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

[@GabrielNicho]

Housing is expensive in Britain because of mass immigration...same as here in Sweden. There is no other answer, demand outstrips supply.

[@mranonymous6646]

14:20 immigration is a symptom of the governments incompetence and a way for the rich to drive down wages. As an immigrant myself, I love immigration as a concept, but it’s the volume and the culture that comes with it that people have a problem with, not that they’re fucking the economy.

[@chriss3404]

Immigration can and often is very good for a country economically, even in surprisingly high volumes if there are systems set up to handle it. A considerable amount of people often talk about immigration economically crippling their state even though *the UK* could probably use their level of funding atm to turn their immigration into a positive. You make a good point; there are pros and cons, but to my mind, big A's main thought in that section read as being more about people that *actively blame poor economic performance on immigrants* being wrong. (and I think that's a pretty safe take :) )

[@AGW99-df3yg]

@@chriss3404 when you say it's good for a "country" you should clarify that you mean the government and corporations, not the people.

[@mranonymous6646]

@@AGW99-df3yg facts!

[@jomammajoe8570]

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

[@AndyE7]

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

[@ASOXO]

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

[@lKushai]

4 mins in and he convinced me taxing rich makes sense

[@barcancelN2]

I knew he was gonna watch this BritMonkey video eventually lfg

[@mathijsfrank9268]

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

[@serpenttao]

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

[@dq6845]

13:40 atrioc sees through the matrix???

[@alexmipego]

Millenials will be different because we understand what's happening. It's not out myopic point of view of our village anymore, we got global access basically all our lives. And most importantly, war exhaustion is a real factor, people get tired of fighting on mass… and millenials have been suffering one thing after the next. This means they'll realize they should keep 1-2 million for themselves, give the rest away and retire right then. Hopefully.

[@kamilwezka]

Come on, guys, leave the UK alone. Okay, I might be riding a horse to my job, but it has relatively low CO2 emissions (at least when I don't feed it potatoes and baked beans, then it farts a lot). Me riding my horse to work looks like: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmrRiZmcm8p0f7c

[@glugtrop2010]

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

[@JerusalemArtichok3]

Most towns are such an eye soaring that you'll immediately spiralling into a depressive episode just being there. Outside of London, it's a 3rd world country imo

[@potatogirlalice]

GLIZZY GLIZZY GLIZZY

[@bonkbones]

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

[@Brandon-hw9wc]

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

[@hydromic2518]

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

[@miseri338]

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

[@Crudecoronet]

he hates those that are anti-nuclear

[@jammed_yam]

hes anti-anti-nuclear

[@Ka_chi1]

He supports nuclear

[@lawrencep8923]

I've lived near the UK for all my life, and in Britain for the past 4 years, and the effects of 14 years of tory leadership cannot be understated. This country is gutted. With labour being voted in, this is the first time I've seen anyone around me be somewhat optimistic about the future in over a decade

[@noeldaboss7875]

Where can I get the full vid of this?

[@greenoftreeblackofblue6625]

I always wanted you to watch this video.

[@thecluckster3908]

12:43 wait but why are you anti-nuclear. I don’t know much about nuclear energy but I’ve heard that it’s green and relatively safe. Is there a problem with it I don’t know about?

[@JagDBD]

hes anti-anti-nuclear

[@Zoulstorm]

@thecluckster3908 It’s also expensive AF and takes a long time to build, time which we dont have right now. Renewables can come online a lot faster for cheaper and they dont jive well with the slow baseload energy of nuclear that takes days to shut off and on, while renewables and gas are almost instantaneous. The only good nuclear energy is the one already built, and if you see someone demanding new nuclear to be built it means they are just trying to stall the renewable transformation going on now.

[@Ahwleung.]

​@@Zoulstorm That's like saying we can't invest in space research because we need civil engineers to keep building bridges and highways. Nuclear industry is very insulated and separate from other power generation, it's entirely possible to build solar/wind and nuclear simultaneously. More importantly, the US is falling behind on all 3 fronts.

[@godlyvex5543]

@@Zoulstorm TBF solar is increasing in effectiveness seemingly exponentially. It might end up being the go-to for power.

[@idontknowwhatimdoing6553]

I believe he's not. He says it in this short kzbin.infoVX3s5MzTYD8?si=1Sj-pbF3d3fgFp88

[@AttaAsh]

At 12:45 is Atrioc saying he is anti-nuclear or is he making a tongue in cheek comment about Germany's anti-nuclear legislation that has been coming into effect recently?

[@northenrager5824]

He’s pro nuclear

[@jammed_yam]

he said he hates people being anti nuclear

[@AttaAsh]

@@jammed_yam appreciate the clarification, I am hard of hearing and with the audio overlap I really could not tell what was being said

[@unorevers7160]

These damn immigrants and their 9.000.000.000 pound tunnel!

[@TomloOSRS]

Not the best video to start the day with, NIMBYism is so prevalent in the UK, thankfully Labour are looking to force through alot of new builds, hopefully this leads to planning reform

[@gamf5996]

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

[@spoogerification]

No that’s stupid. Uk has good public transport

[@user-cp9id1mj8b]

9:03 LOL

[@MrEnriqueag]

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

[@fenook8634]

the wealthy move out buddy the uk is losing like 300 millionaires a day atm they take the money with them

[@Fettupwithyou]

Tax the queen!

[@williamhabberjam410]

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

[@dracekidjr]

The us having better transit than the UK vompletely ignores that the UK is like 1/10 the size of the us lol

[@notabot1498]

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

[@RemixkingDystansy]

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