How Britain is Contagiously Miserable

The UK was voted the 2nd most miserable country in the world. Here's why..
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Timestamps:
1:38 - 5:28 Weather isn't the biggest problem
5:29 - 8:20 Cultural Apathy
8:21 - 10:53 Leaving Britain is Eye Opening
10:54 - 11:35 The Facade of "Great" Britain
11:36 - end Real Patriotism

[@edwardvickers5506]

The reason the country is miserable is because it's been badly governed for decades.

[@vinay7397]

really ? the British economy is doing better than most EU countries. Labour have brainwashed the country that "the country and economy is broken", they believe it and now tell everyone things are going to get worse. There are problems, but the UK is still an innovation superpower and the 5th biggest economy in the world.

[@oldishandwoke-ish1181]

@@edwardvickers5506 As I said above ....

[@jamieroach5755]

watch europa the last battle

[@gutinstinct4067]

@@larsbjrnson3101 And i bet Wagon makers and Mead suppliers have dropped off a lot too lol

[@roaldgrimson-d5w]

Same exact thing in America!

[@chrisa5631]

Cost of life is going up but not the quality of it. Housing is a problem because not ONE house in England is worth the price you pay for it.

[@griswald7156]

@@chrisa5631 well you cant buy a house for half price…so build one yourself then sell it for what you paid for it …if everybody did that we could all afford a house..buying from people like you..

[@abunnycalledSimon]

​@@griswald7156 what do you think you build the house on? LAND! Land is also a rip off and with an increasing population is just getting worse!

[@RW-nr6bh]

​@@griswald7156 It's the land that costs money. The value of the structure of the house is just a fraction of the total value.

[@griswald7156]

@@RW-nr6bh the land should be free if you were born here…otherwise put a charge on the air you breathe..

[@funeyshoot2843]

Where I’m at, 260k for a shitty terraced house in some ghetto, defo worth my money.

[@RodFleming-World]

I live in a country which is considered much poorer than Britain, but in fact it is much richer. The people have not forgotten the joy of life.

[@rstafford9191]

spot on, I just visited hungary, low wages, no mass immigration, stunning villages and towns, hardly any crime, very patriotic people. im considering moving. britain has lost its way and the reason! most people are not british

[@careytitan9097]

Homogenous societies are always happier countries than diverse ones, just as Britain used to be, we were poor but happy, when we were an homogenous country.

[@RodFleming-World]

@@careytitan9097 this is absolutely true. So-called 'multiculturalism' is the death of society.

[@clivebaxter6354]

Thailand?

[@RodFleming-World]

@@clivebaxter6354 me? Philippines

[@ib8401]

I’m an Australian who lived in the UK for a year and couldn’t wait to move back to Australia. It’s not just economics. Australia is a much more trusting and caring society. We do work hard - but we are more laid back and happier. The UK is more of a dog eat dog society. It’s about what you can get for yourself. No concern for anyone else.

[@G676aqiu-78]

Australia is NOT a laid back country. It's a very stressed out, angry and aggressive place with drugged up meth junkies and alcoholics shouting in the street and on public transport; road-rage maniacs and roid-munchers; status-obsessed middle-class yuppies... I'm glad I left the place years ago. A shallow country and certainly not "caring".

[@mjg239]

You're Australian but where did you originally come from? Are you ethnically British? Australia famously has the "tall poppy syndrome" -- where people hold people back who are doing well or are considered "too successful".

[@jennafer40]

Are you Australia? Have you ever been to Aus? Your comment is ridiculous! Tall Poppy Syndrome! lol … that just means “Pull your head in , your no better than anyone else” If your going to big note yourself… You will be humbled. To answer your question I am a decedent of first fleet convicts. So so glad they came here. I often say to my British friends…I’m sure my decedents pretended to steel a spoon, just to get the hell out of Britain!!

[@Ganymede559]

@@mjg239 Everything he said is spot on and accurate.

[@ib8401]

@@mjg239There’s also the concept that everyone deserves a ‘fair go’ or a ‘fair chance’ which I did not find in the UK. Australia wouldn’t let there be the same regional inequality that exists in the UK. It’s more about equality. I think the tall poppy syndrome does exist - but it has been lessened these days - as we look to be inspired more by the economic success of the USA. London is also a tough place. It’s the capital of Europe - full of crime, crowds and illegal immigrants. Melbourne Australia is more like a (big) village so people act more trusting. It’s pretty hard - or impossible - to come all the way out here illegally ….

[@najib1]

As a French person living in the UK for the past 30 years I can tell you it hasn't been the same. In the mid to early 2000s there was a real sense of optimism. The UK was the place to be culturally, economically and entrepreneurship was actually encouraged.

[@zak3744]

Yep, I'm English, but I have the same opinion. There used to be much more of an idea of a social contract, and expectation for a reasonable life. I don't think that it's about the people who want to strive and be an entrepreneur or whatever, it's about the average people. Twenty years ago if you worked hard in an average job, you could expect to have a house, stable employment, not an extravagent life but a content one, and the state provided basic community services and would look after you if you had problems. Now if you work hard, you can have the privilege to pay your landlord's unearned income, never expect to have a house, and all the libraries and community centres are shut and leisure facilities are all privately owned so you can't even have simple enjoyments. There's a big generational divide. I am quite worried what will happen if the new Labour government don't try to rebuild the social contract and reduce inequality. We're not France, so I don't expect immediate riots or anything, but if people lose faith I think it will be dangerous in the medium term.

[@majordelays4909]

Tony Blair started the rot. Things have got worse since we became tolerant and apathetic of crime. I lived up and down the UK and worked abroad. Glasgow was about the most enjoyable place I worked coming from Leeds. Why I ever returned from Paris I’ll never know 😂😂😂😂😂

[@rojaktar3509]

​@@majordelays4909thank you! Allowing the Kosovans shelter and giving them free reign over education,social housing etc

[@oldishandwoke-ish1181]

@@majordelays4909 And Tony Blair was whose protégé, or did you vote for her?

[@DBAR-3103]

Same here Im french and been in London since 1994😢. I left the country in 2021 for most of the same reasons, true that the best year was under Tony Blairs leadership, not that Im a fan, after that and after 2004 when UK opened the borders, the country s started gradually to go down the drain..

[@johngower2208]

it's the apathy and denial of the general population that is so bothersome to me

[@Jay-Tea.]

Addicted to mobile phones and social media. If they can live in delusion why woud they care?

[@Takeawayinataxi]

Stockholme syndrome.

[@Fiona-hp4mw]

I despair of them quite frankly

[@Maddie_Madds]

Same. It's definitely a level of Stockholm Syndrome.

[@ajs41]

Only about 50% of adults bothered to vote in the election we've just had. I know the official turnout was 60% but a lot of people aren't even on the voting register.

[@J1M1F]

House prices, taxes and feeling like a foreigner in my own country…

[@cocorita]

Look, found the xenophobe!

[@harold6863]

More bloody foreigners every day!

[@BillSikes.]

​@@cocorita Look, found the clown! 🫵

[@RobONeill-b5e]

I'm assuming you're not a foreigner in your own country so, if you feel like that, it's on you

[@sullyx5142]

Governed by the same people that gave the British the empire so don't complain and lap it up. The days of rap-ing the world are over.

[@dariusanderton3760]

British man complaining at length that British people complain too much.

[@illinoisan]

The happiest people in any country are the ones focused on the wellbeing of others. Miserable people are miserable because they’re obsessed with their own situation.

[@madhuridas4745]

@illinoisan Profound, true, ...that's why community is stronger in poorer countries. Or it used to be, as unfortunately ppls want the western lifestyle now. Poor communities were stronger as ppl looked out for one another. Not just their own families. That's what the problem is

[@TheLionSleepsNoMore]

I left uk 5 years ago to live in france. I don't regret it for 1 second. France is an amazing country. England is pure misery!

[@nzuncovered1845]

France is a complete sh*thole, the entire of Europe is collapsing

[@harmonizedigital.]

They pay 20k a year for a skilled job in the UK. Could be making 150k per year in the US for the same job.

[@lbunnygordon1133]

Exactly 25 yr old wage. Every bit of nightlife for ordinary people was shut down by Kh**... and unaffordable. You are put away if you say anything...

[@aedsell]

sure, except the hiring process is ai driven and getting your foot in the door is almost impossible.

[@carolanndenton5933]

yeah but it's living in the US..that can be quite a culture shock!!

[@thepenultimateninja5797]

​@@carolanndenton5933 I moved to the US about 15 years ago, and I love it here. There wasn't much of a culture shock really. It's a bit different, but it's not like you have to learn another language or anything. We all grew up watching American TV and movies, so the culture feels familiar.

[@adiadi5832]

I do that in 4 months after tax,monday to friday,I live here for about 22 years now and everything going down the drain....roads,cities the society in general

[@milo5395]

it basically boils down to the fact that the UK was very homogenous even in the 90s and now it isnt, we have killed desire and the community

[@moif_velocita]

No. I grew up in the UK in the '70s and '80s and I recognise what this man is saying. Britain is a bully culture where people love to punch down. Leaving was such a liberation and I'm never going back

[@mjmf1430]

Yah right, basically blame it on the immigrants instead of your own lazy non-competitive“homogeneity”, or your politicians and complicit media.

[@escapetheratracenow9883]

I was 23 in 1990. I'd left school with only two O levels. I hated school and didn't want to go to 6th Form college. Instead I went on the YOPS scheme, the forerunner of the YTS. This scheme was much maligned by the Labour Party but I learned a hell of a lot and ultimately got a full time job 8 weeks before my 17th birthday. I saved enough from my YOPS money to buy a car and the boss gave me regular driving jobs in a transit box van, then a 7 and a half tonner at 18. My wages had been climbing regularly, I'd now bought my 3rd car, a newer version of Gene Hunt's Cortina. I was driving all over the country and got the chance at 21 to go for Class One HGV training which I passed first time. At 23 I bought my first house (the average age of the first time buyer back then) after relocating to North Nottinghamshire for my new position. I bought a three-bed semi with a garage and gas central heating for 38 grand. I was on the UK average wage at this point having started on £25 a week on the YOPS scheme,then £50 after I got taken on. I didn't worry about utility bills or the mortgage. I worked hard and partied hard as the local town was always buzzing on a weekend, and bus trips to the lights of Sheffield city centre on a Friday night to go clubbing were ludicrously cheap. Life was fantastic for me! I bought a brand new Ford Sierra GT in March of 1992, I'd had three weeks in the US the previous autumn. I was still saving each month,had no debt on my credit cards, still didn't worry about my bills,and this went on for the rest of the decade. Opportunity was there for me if I took the chances before me. Today I wouldn't be allowed to leave school at 16. I could never afford to buy a car and afford the insurance at 17. You now need an expensive HGV licence to drive a 7.5 ton truck, and two expensive tests to obtain a Class One licence. Can a 23-year-old lad with no Uni degree on the average UK wage buy or rent a three-bed semi today?? Opportunity. That's a ladder that's been pulled up for too many young people now. The ability to be an independent and confident adult has been erased faster than a comment on KZbin. I thank my lucky stars I was born in 1966 and got to build and enjoy a life to the max. Where's all the money gone since 2000?? The economy has allegedly grown in leaps and bounds but the evidence of the reality on the ground, in towns and cities up and down the country tells a different, bleaker story. The town I moved to, Worksop, is a ghost town now. The rot set in when the local colliery closed in 1992. The best pub in town where I met my beautiful future wife is now a Vietnamese restaurant. More than half of the other pubs have gone. The High Street is full of boarded-up shops. Now all that remains are charity shops ( who are struggling thanks to online sites) bookies, mobile phone repair shops, pawn shops and the now ubiquitous Turkish barber shops. Where's the opportunity today?? Prat about for a useless wage on a pushbike delivering crap food to lazy slobs every day? The country I knew and loved has gone for good. What remains in its place is frankly horrifying,and I'm glad to have escaped from it a long time ago. I'd be miserable as sin if I was 23 today, probably a drug addict, alcoholic manic depressive. If not, I might be wailing about gender politics, concerned about pronouns and prancing around at Pride rallies before going back to my childhood bedroom , relying upon the largesse of my parents instead of demanding a fair chance at having the same chances my parents and grandparents had. The silence from young people about this joke of an economy and authoritarian government is deafening. They're more frightened of climate change than the very real danger of nuclear war with Russia. Still, as we used to say,when we were still allowed to have a sense of humour: mustn't grumble 😂 Good video by the way. I'm now living in Bulgaria with my second wife. We've been effectively retired since our late forties and have been having the time of our lives! Move back to the UK? I would rather volunteer for Man's first landing on the Sun. 😂 😂

[@finolaomurchu8217]

Yes what jumps out at me there is the young people are set up to stay in "education" as long as possible. While they are there in that world of state education (2nd and 3rd level) their brains are bombarded with lgbtq stuff and green guff. The young adults are bamboozled. No peace of mind. Your life sounds lovely in Bulgaria, and you're living a full life👍☘️

[@anthonywoolley7389]

I could not put it better my self. I was born in 1962. and my first wage was £30 per week bought my first motor bike when I was 17 and my first house at 22. on the small wage that I had I lived a good life back then traveling the country on my bike or out in the night clubs of Manchester. right now at 61 I don't no what to do with the prises of things and the high taxes are strangling all of us and with inept governments that don't care about the country or the people in it, I can only see disaster ahead. your right the youth of this country don't stand a chance and I wouldn't blame them for leaving a country that quite frankly has let them down. From the ordinary people to the government we have allowed the destruction of are communities and the the country as a hole, we should all be ashamed of are cowardly selves for sitting back and doing nothing.

[@escapetheratracenow9883]

@@anthonywoolley7389 This place is magnificent for riding a motorbike, plus petrol is a quid a gallon cheaper and the insurance tons less. Britain is too far gone, too damaged, beyond salvation and repair because of the mendacity of this government and most of its predecessors since 1975

[@escapetheratracenow9883]

@@finolaomurchu8217 I see my reply to you has been erased. I’m just surprised my OP was allowed to remain untouched. The indoctrination is too deep to ever correct, sadly.

[@sc3pt1c4L]

Exactly this. But young people today accept it because they didn't know of a time before their current circumstances. I am not as old as you, and JUST missed out on the scenarios you mentioned so was never able to get a foot on the housing ladder. I have nothing and know I never will, but knew a time when it was better for my parents and grandparents, which means I have the worst of both worlds. sad.

[@volchonik6208]

3 worst things about the UK: 1. Pervasive class structure (it has not faded, it's strong as ever!) 2. Aggressive culture (verbally aggressive and passive aggressive also!) 3. Public services of unreliable and low quality! (From public buses to the health service and all things in between!)

[@likeAG6likeAG6]

Stop making those stupid excuses 1. Diversity That's it. Without that amazing thing Britain would've still been top 1 migration route for all white Europe and an economic powerhouse because of that, while still being super safe and homogeneous society. You destroyed your own country. Cheers from Eastern Europe.

[@OliverTwist-vv4xh]

1 islime 2 islime 3 islime

[@Trylobyte]

@@OliverTwist-vv4xh This is a racist comment. Muslims are only 6% of our population, a minority with on average less input and influence in our society, so how can they be to blame for the state of our country? Look no further than far right oligarchs and the media and government that they own with bribery and corruption. And people like you.

[@hcw199]

Add to that the crap weather. Police state and over regulations

[@diveguy4291]

Class structure was less pervasive in 90's & 00's, it has made a rapid comeback since covid hit, too many people made small fortunes out of that while others got a lit poorer.

[@hufficag]

We were told in school that we're better off than 99% of people on Earth Teachers kept repeating that. People in developing countries envy our gray streets and cracked pavement and empty meaningless lives.

[@greenwendal5056]

Yeah our lives are so great most people I speak to dream of living in a shed in a field.

[@Glass_Nkoaa]

Maybe u feel.like that. I feel great and make a hell lot of money than ma friends in Canada and USA. I really enjoy the UK. I was in Canada recently and I couldn't wait to come to the UK.

[@LauKillamunII]

Chinese are happier and doing better on the cheap.

[@hufficag]

@@LauKillamunII Funny you say that because I actually moved to China 10 years ago

[@alaypatel6050]

That was attitide came accross watching some bbc ( british bs corporation) on indian sub continent. Home is so much better than this hell hole. You just cant miss the propaganda, it was on the face.

[@Talk4UK]

London is unlivable at the moment. People can't afford to pay the rent, the accommodation is squalid, people don't have money to eat, people can't afford to take a bus any longer, people can't afford to go to the put, people can't afford to invite friends to their houses and pay for the food. I could go on, but maybe it is enough for people to get the gist!

[@Jay-Tea.]

I think housing is the main one, the state of it is an absolute disgrace.

[@davetherave1230]

Most voters are homeowners, politicians are afraid of building housing in case they get voted out.

[@careytitan9097]

I saw a video of a brand new 6 bed house, carpeted, cooker, dishwasher, en-suites etc being given to an African family of 8! We all know who is bottom of the list!

[@robtyman4281]

Suitable and available housing, cost of living crisis, brexit, 'forced' austerity, and basically s**t weather have all conspired to create a perfect storm. Add a stagnating economy into the mix, and it's little surprise that Brits are tetchy, irritable, and gloomy about the future.

[@careytitan9097]

@@robtyman4281 Believe what you have been brainwashed to believe! Britain was already in decline while we were members of the Eu we lost everything we ever had, including our sovereignty, and we never even left in the smoke and mirrors deal, we are still under their jurisdiction, laws, courts, freedom of movement and we are still paying them! You are still asleep!

[@robtyman4281]

@@careytitan9097 Rubbish!

[@WorkersPartyofAustralia]

Frankly speaking it’s the same in Australia. Western Society generally speaking have no soul anymore. It’s just a zone for economics.

[@besovereign2032]

Yes but he was right in suggesting at least you have a higher standard of living

[@LalaDepala_00]

Speak for yourself. Plenty of Western nations are still happy. I am Dutch and wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

[@gavinlucas22]

The consequences of neoliberal economics. The complete atomization and comodification of society and everything in it. We don't live in nations anymore - we live in businesses owned by consortiums of international imlnvestors.

[@madhuridas4745]

Except in pure Nature. When you are in a natural environment- your soul connects with its Creator. Magic

[@Ganymede559]

@@LalaDepala_00 Anglo-Saxon countries aren't, so get a clue.

[@CA999]

The UK has been miserable for centuries. The emigration out of the UK has been going on during that time. Very few return permanently. Its not a new phenomena.

[@OliverTwist-vv4xh]

Great replacement

[@semsemeini7905]

Harry wants to return.

[@glennoc8585]

Yeah true but lots of people immigrated to the uk and made great lives in recent decades. My dad's family moved from Ireland and built a large business in the 60s and 70s and they thought England was a great country. Lots of professionals from Australia, Canada etc have moved to the uk and love it especially if they're Europhiles. The grim lifebif terraced house living and the old smog from coal fires was a big push factor for people to leave before and after the war.

[@welshed]

It’s very regional and we’re still class based. The poor, neglected areas have a lot of miserable people. The affluent areas that get the funding, have a lot of content people. If you have money and can go abroad often, you’re probably not that miserable. If you can only go to Benidorm once a year on a crappy all inclusive holiday, you’ll be miserable. A lot of people here, feel there’s no way to move up the ladder. That’s the fundamental issue.

[@dan44zzt231]

They think it's someone else's fault they can't move up the ladder or they can't be happy with what they have IMO. The perfect combination of being miserable indefinitely and taking no responsibility for it.

[@lohphat]

The class caste system must be dismantled, starting with the monarchy. It's outlived its mandate and is no longer fit for purpose. It sets expectations that some people are "naturally superior" to others through no effort of their own other than whose womb they dropped from.

[@Twistededgemedia]

​@@dan44zzt231I half agree with you here, for some people their circumstances make things difficult, ill health etc especially if it came out of the blue can massively affect a person's mental wellbeing and perspective. However yes I also know many like this, people who think that people who have made progress have done so because 'they've had it easy' or whatever.

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

@@dan44zzt231 Blaming the poor for their poverty while immensely rich people - whose unearned wealth is from the labour of the working class - get ever richer... Time you looked at reality.

[@greenwendal5056]

@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Yeah just get rich dummy.

[@chrishoward2999]

I’m Aussie, I’ve visited Britain a few times, love it over there , great pubs, music and culture, history and heaps to see and do but there isn’t a day I don’t thank my great great great grandfather for being transported to Australia as a convict in the 1820’s.

[@eddierussel5911]

A lot gangs yeah

[@stayfree6115]

Maybe that's why the British went to sea and covered the world. To get the hell out.

[@careytitan9097]

Britain did a service to the world by modernising it, with our wonderous inventions and don't forget it!

[@FunAllDayLong4353]

The Victorian period was a GOLDEN period of British history when its people were prouder of its accomplishments than any other.

[@101brydon]

Oh yes why hasnt the average joe recieved any benefits then. The place is shit ​@careytitan9097

[@101brydon]

Oh yes what benefit as the average joe got out of it the place as become a shit hole ​@@careytitan9097

[@careytitan9097]

@@101brydon Benefits were for the British people after we fought in war, not for the rest of the world! It is not free, it is a Ponzi scheme!

[@alexpavlides2047]

I feel so stuck in the UK. I feel I worked hard, have a phd in stem, but my quality of life is going down. I was laid off 4 months ago and can’t even find another job. The main issue is that all the jobs leads I get are in London but I can’t afford to move to London!!! It’s ridiculous that I’m reluctant to follow opportunities because of the cost of living difference. Something needs to change. It’s become a country where unless you are already secure you are mostly shut out from the chance of having it yourself.

[@McMonkeyful]

You should seriously consider getting out. It's not getting better any time soon. The longer you try to tough it out, the more you'll grow accustomed to the shit state of affairs. You have skills that other countries will pay well for. Perhaps the US. Do it while you're young & before life traps you here. You can always come back if things don't work out. Better to regret something you tried than something you didn't do.

[@jillhargrave-george4510]

​@@McMonkeyfulvery wise!

[@alexpavlides2047]

@@McMonkeyful I am considering moving to Barcelona. They have tech jobs and the cost of living is more inline with what I'm used to. However, it is still going to be a massive effort to up-sticks. One step at a time and hopefully i'll get there by 44 and start a new life! Oh, and I am forgetting about having kids, things are just too precarious as it is.

[@McMonkeyful]

@@alexpavlides2047 Spain seems like a great choice. Of course, moving abroad is no easy feat but you're young and now is the time of your life where you can take some risks and still bounce back if things don't work out. Once you have kids, a mortgage, family commitments etc... it gets increasingly hard. I left the dead-end town I grew up in and moved to Cardiff back in 1999 and it totally transformed my life. Perhaps not as radical as moving to Barcelona but I have never regretted my decision to up sticks. I wouldn't be too quick to rule out a family. The world has always been perilous, yet our ancestors made it. When you meet a beautiful senorita & fall in love, |I'm sure you will see things differently ;) Best of luck to you. Be bold and make things happen. As I said, it's better to regret something you did than something you didn't do.

[@slagrebi740]

Escaped 20 years ago, no regrets leaving. We're not taught financial skills at school, they want a bunch of miserable tax paying drones who remain at their station in life. It's generational. You don't get something for nothing, never rely on the government where possible.

[@besovereign2032]

Like that in most counties tbf

[@maibeppu9]

So true. My father said the same things 50 years ago.

[@SvetlanaVOLODKOGATT]

That is why there is a segregation of the private and state schools. Private schools are teaching all the things for kids to know how to keep being ritch. UK is still wealth class society no matter what they say on TV.

[@greenwendal5056]

When I was at a kid at school. Someone literally came from the bank to get kids to sign up for a kids debit card. I was never once taught about how money works. Had lots of lessons on feminism and the african slave trade though.

[@mundoglory7071]

In my experience two main factors: lack of sunlight and miserable weather, and a culture of living to work rather than working to live. And overpopulation which fosters a feeling of distrust and competitiveness

[@WhyWhyWhy-ms3we]

Multicultural enrichment has destroyed the U.K. 😢😢😢

[@Student-v8w]

Summed it up

[@skywalkeracademyteam8831]

That's four, but all seem plausible. But I think if you want to get to the heart of it, it is a spiritual deficit. A deep skeptism, and cynacism. A collective loss of innocence. A moral vacuum. This is where optimism dies.

[@mattabouttrails]

To be fair it's been rubbish and miserable in Britain for a very long time. I left almost 25 years ago and never looked back..

[@griswald7156]

So you wouldnt know what it’s like here….if you haven’t lived here for a quarter of a century..just saying..

[@mattabouttrails]

@@griswald7156 well I've visited a fair few times have friends and family there and watch GB News, 😂 haha

[@griswald7156]

@@mattabouttrails right so you dont know what its like to live and work here…because you haven’t done it for 25 years…

[@mattabouttrails]

@@griswald7156 correct, don't know what its like day to day, but it appears from my point of view to be worse than it was in 90's.

[@griswald7156]

@@mattabouttrails if you be a successful person in the UK….i can assure you its lovely….maybe you’ve found somewhere to live with less effort..and improved your lot…you enjoy visiting here…if it was miserable here you would just forget the place..so if it improved economically i take it youll be back ? You’re an economic migrant with no interest in improving the Uk..yourself but you’re quite happy for us citizens build it up for you…then youll be a British citizen again..will you be claiming a uk pension when the time comes ? If you become ill will you come back for hospital treatment ?

[@RevoeLad]

The irony of a British guy complaining about Brits complaining about the country. And then complaining about the country too.😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿you do have a point though.

[@ultimatebeeba]

Revoe? Are you from Blackpool by any chance? 😄

[@deblou7]

These kids dont know they are born, our forefathers toiled and fought and this lot winge and cry and say 'im leaving'... where to??? If they havnt got the guts to stand tall on their own land they will like lambs to the slaughter in another country, the whole world is in chaos so i say trott along, see how far you get wimp lol

[@ameliashandcraftedmemes7888]

You can't win here. You either settle for how shit it is and be a boring person, or you aspire for more and complain all the time.

[@ajs41]

We can't be that bad if people are willing to risk their lives getting here from France!

[@deanmadnut2614]

​@@ajs41those people get free money that's why they are doing it!! Difference is alot of us that work will not get any help.

[@knockedoutloaded279]

Terrible for single men..high suicide..no support..never will be...

[@frosty_manX]

No support I was suicidal and had support what are you talking about no support?

[@Raven44453]

In the UK people are told they should be ashamed of their country , flag , culture, history and even the very fact that they exist , school teach that attitude, other countries have that attitude , our government have that attitude. How can people be happy when everyone is telling them that the world would be a better place if they never existed ?

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Yes. The project has succeeded ! Only around 50 % of people in Britain today would agree that they are proud to be British.....in another few years it will be half of that. !!Unbelievable .!!

[@stephbutler8704]

Actually no, we are conditioned to be proud of our country but I've learned to be ashamed as I've found out the truth & unlearned all the lies we've been told. We're a country in decline with a fading sense of glory for the past when we were an empire and committed mass crimes against humanity for around 200 years. No amount of propoganda will convince me that this is a great country. Wealth inequality has grown dramatically under successive neo- liberal governments and while prices have soared wages haven't risen in real terms for 15 years. Both political parties are corrupt and have right wing agendas. I dont see a pathway to change this within the current electoral system

[@johnmarks7600]

I don’t think English people should be ashamed of themselves. It’s stupid to feel ashamed of something other people did, especially before you were born - just as it’s stupid to feel pride in other people’s accomplishments. Both patriotism and national shame are irrational. That being said, it’s simply a fact that the British Empire was not a force for good in the world. It conquered a quarter of the planet and maintained its possessions through terror and brute force. It was indirectly responsible for famines that killed millions of people. In places like India, it destroyed nascent industrialization and ultimately held back growth for almost the entire existence of Britain’s presence there. There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging these facts. First and most importantly, they’re true. Second, to deny them would be to live in the past. No country ever became great by looking backwards.

[@danielbuxton4493]

@@stephbutler8704 First day on the Internet?

[@ripvanwinkle6557]

​@stephbutler8704 >"Both parties are corrupt and have *right wing* agendas" RageBait slop used to be believable... 🎣 🥱

[@RevoeLad]

Those countries didn’t have the industrial decline that we had. Dutch people are always innovating and they never lost their industry. We have been betrayed over and over again by governments. Look at how much steel and mining we used to have. The pubs too like you said.

[@cultfiction3865]

Bizarrely though, the public here continue to vote in the same governments that have repeatedly betrayed us, which reflects the hopeless mindset here of sticking with what we already know instead of being open to innovation

[@careytitan9097]

Eu took them.

[@PS987654321PS]

@@careytitan9097 Bankers did it to you.

[@Killy6900]

Britain was one of the biggest industrial exporters until it got subsidised to the mainland by the EU!

[@brazilianmegaman258]

@@RevoeLad the political and managerial class in this country hate us. That's all there is to it. They want us to suffer because the more we suffer, the more we ask of them and the more we ask of them, the more solutions they will seem to provide for problems that they created. To an outsider looking in it would appear that the former largest and wealthiest nations in the west are engaged in a humiliation ritual that is destroying everything about their identity and rapidly replacing it with an order of neoliberal global homogeneity seen through the lens of the Blairite "end of history" view and a spectacular ramping up of the racial communism aspect of "positive discrimination" toward the native population through a multi-tiered justice system and the pervasive messaging that is taught in academic institutions. Things in Britain and the west at large are going to get a lot worse in the coming years.

[@user-yt2vd9gz8y]

I escaped from prison island a few years back for the Baltics and have never been happier, seeing what UK has turned into confirms it was the correct move.

[@rokasdobrovolskis]

Which one of the Baltics may I ask?

[@user-yt2vd9gz8y]

@@rokasdobrovolskis I met a Lithuanian lady in Hastings UK

[@thadtuiol1717]

Same, but I met a Japanese girl in London and went back to Japan with her.

[@user-yt2vd9gz8y]

@@thadtuiol1717 👍

[@madhuridas4745]

Prison Island..lmfao

[@Rysa-L]

Actually, Northern Europe has always been particularly miserable. Its in the psyche. There's a fantastic documentary by Jonathan Meades called Magnetic North, which explores this. I myself love the misery, because i dont like anyone. Good day, young man.

[@danielreed823]

Yes.

[@youngian]

Dedicated holiday resorts are a no no for me, there's a big emphasis on having fun. This is best avoided.

[@PeIeus]

Thanks, gonna look at that, cheers

[@80srenaissance67]

The idea of looking forward to going to Butlins and sitting watching the laid-on entertainment ......destroys my soul​@youngian

[@vernetify]

As someone who was born and raised in England (Kent) I must say the worst thing about it is that you are conditioned/brainwashed into thinking that you have no right to improve yourself, to aspire to better things, to enjoy higher cultural activities. You are virtually told you are a peasant, not PLU (people like us). You are not one of the privately educated, well connected, wealthy elite, not one of the ‘club’. Left in 1976, disgusted with the snobbery, dreadful housing, heavy drinking culture, awful roads. It seems as though the powers that be delight in making life as difficult as possible for everyone. MY ADVICE; LEAVE AS SOON AS YOU CAN, YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT !

[@jonholmes1845]

I think it’s bad you leave you should stay and make it a better country for when I visit after leaving 30 Years ago

[@FunAllDayLong4353]

Yes anybody with any sense should leave before the iron curtain closes and the jack boots rain down.

[@juliebrady8583]

Where too?

[@NoOne-hq9cp]

It's a caste system know your place peasants The queen did king does call you his subjects

[@sky-pv7ff]

Don't worry about the elites. Worry about having salvation. "In the King James Version of the Bible, Matthew 19:23 states, "Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. " Jesus also says, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God".

[@AdamWebb1982]

we've been beaten down so much that most of us have given up.

[@E_L1000]

There are a couple of fundamental things that needs to change in the UK. * The state does not know who owns huge parts of England and Wales. * It almost impossible to build a house in the British countryside. * The UK has a strict class system. Where the working class accents are hated by the upper classes. * The disproportionately many public schools is a breeding ground for corruption. * The British conservative mindset was charming for a long time, but it has to go. To much infrastructure is lacking behind the rest of the developed world. * Brits tend to talk a lot and often in a cultivated manner, but there is very little action. * The voting system. The UK needs to get proportional representation as quick as possible.

[@TheFragilityOfIdeas]

I live in Japan and love it. I still long for the UK, but as it was in the 90s. It was culturally vibrant, cohesive, confident, ambitious, exciting, much safer than now and seemingly had a bright future ahead of it. What changed in that period that led to this decline? I guess Blair in 97 had a lot to do with it. Britain never recovered from that and can you blame Brits for being pessimistic and atomised for the past 20+ years when the society and culture is being radically transformed and has already been. I am not sure how this video could be put out there without mentioning mass immigration from the third world as a key contributing factor. Is this still the elephant in the room? I had thought the Overton Window had shifted now given the extent of the problem. I remember before mass immigration, life in the UK in the 90s was not dull or miserable at all. It was a wonderful period. If you think Brits are just genetically or culturally predisposed to negativity, then you are part of the problem. This outlook you’ve experienced for the last few decades is a direct result of the political decisions which have served to shatter the fabric of British society.

[@greni7472]

We are called whinging poms for good reason.

[@RaveSceneTribute]

probably scared of being called waysist. like most of thee cowards who jump ship.

[@davidbrims5825]

Mass immigration started in 1948. Tony Blair opened the floodgates in the 90s.

[@meisterlymanu5214]

globalization and debt. Money printing. Thats it. Theres your problem from 97.

[@brazilianmegaman258]

@@TheFragilityOfIdeas too right. It was great back then and it was fairly safe.

[@zytoses9223]

ngl going to japan really woke me up to what else was out there culture wise and it was probably the happiest i'd been in a long time. Coming home was pure depression as i'd gone from nice warm weather, amazing scenery, polite people and things to explore to overcast rainy weather, shit roads, dull people and a crap government.

[@cultfiction3865]

💯

[@careytitan9097]

It is called homogeny, like Britain used to be just 50 years ago and that is why Britain is depressed!

[@craigjoiner08]

​@@careytitan9097absolutely, we are being re-placed and demoralised as a thanks for being the so called good guys in the two world wars A phoenix from the ashes awakening in the real British people is needed

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Japan has not permitted mass immigration !!! They have retained their sense of National Identity ......unlike Britain.!

[@FufuFang]

Bruh, in 2019, according to Wikipedia, Japan's suicide rate per 100k population is 12.2, for the UK, it is 6.9. In terms of ranking, Japan is 49, UK is 117. The table has 183 entries. And you are telling me Japan is a better place, and "coming home was pure depression". Mate, going to Japan is purely suicidal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate

[@gnewgnew2011]

I'm another one who is evacuating. Young, educated professional immigrant, working since the first week, paying taxes, not causing any problems, earning more than 90% of the population in this country. What do I get in return? Absurdly overpriced rent, 40 people fighting for one property, when at the same time the government is happy to spend nearly £8bln a year on hotels and social houses for illegals. In a few weeks, I'm losing my job because of huge cuts in infrastructure budgets. I could get the job, but I would have to accept a huge pay cut. Sorry, but I'm out of here, this country is a great place only for parasites on benefits that have never even paid tax here.

[@deeomayall]

Or rather, it's a great place only for your landlord, who ultimately is the real person who screwed their own country by screwing everyone like you.

[@CA999]

@@gnewgnew2011 do not come here to Australia or any other Western Country. It's exactly the same scam.

[@griswald7156]

@@gnewgnew2011 well thats London( treasure Island ) for you…..there be buried treasure there me hearty’s…some dig but cant find the jewels..so its sailing the seven seas looking for a pot of gold.for you, good luck ! Dont forget your friends…money money money….its a rich mans world…. Earning more than 90% but cant buy a house ? You’re probably living in a Lamborghini….poor thing.. If youre leaving thats one more bed space for a migrant…we are giving the country away fast now…sir john betchaman would love this..

[@gnewgnew2011]

@@griswald7156 don't know who your weed suplier is, but I need his number, that must be some solid stuff you smoke mate.

[@griswald7156]

@@gnewgnew2011 it’s not weed that’s affecting me it’s the temperance movement I belong to … I am drug free… you should try it..turn your life around son..

[@lewissmith-d4s]

I think the apathy element is a result of he fact that for centuries we have lived in relative peace compared to our neighbours, who have experienced invasions, bloody revolutions and dictatorial ideologies. The people in those countries naturally became more prone to standing up for themselves and having to rally together. We've been protected by a river and have lived in a bubble for a long time.

[@tdb7992]

The amount of Brits arriving in Australia right now is insane. The amount of Brits applying for jobs with us has increased dramatically and you can see young Brits everywhere. The wages here are just so much higher.

[@TommyBahama84]

Interesting, I'd be taking a pretty significant pay cut in my profession by going to Australia.

[@Matthew_Ssali]

Belive it or not most people who reside in Australia have British Ancestors this isn't a new thing. Same story in Canada, USA (Many African-Americans, German-Americans,Russian-Americans, Mexican-Americans have British ancestors due to the British getting there first,{exponential growth and that} and intermixing so most Americans have some British ancestors belive it or not and New Zealand.

[@arthurlincoln9093]

Do you want them? Competition often breeds resentment. I would resent them. Australia has enough problems without the Brits piling in to drive up house prices.

[@Lindisfarnefarmer]

And where do you think your ancestors arrived from? 😂​@@arthurlincoln9093

[@JohnL-ml7iv]

@@arthurlincoln9093 British migrants are far, far, far more welcome than the other kinds, if you know what I mean. We need to start drawing genetic lines in the sand. If you know what I mean.

[@tomtom3864]

Im Polish,ve been living in UK for last 20 years .I've tried other country's as well Norway, Germany and you right last 20 years it's only decline here...but that what they want and programming young men from early years to be weak , confused , without ambition s because weak men don't protest against government etc..but it's not only UK it's all western Europe...I hope within next 2 years I will be back in Poland good luck to you young man

[@thadtuiol1717]

Poland is going down that road too, just you wait.

[@Kam-King213]

stupid poland accepted a million ukranian refugees disregarding the fact ethnic tensions always exist even amongst europeans, the ethnic conflict in eastern ukraine will happen in Poland in the future

[@stephenchappell7512]

​@@thadtuiol1717 maybe although you've got to consider that freedom is a comparatively a new thing in Poland (compared to the UK) and therefore there are still a great many people around who lived though and are familiar with Tyranny in all its forms

[@thadtuiol1717]

​@@stephenchappell7512 Anyone who well remembers life in Poland behind the Iron Curtain is already 50+ years old. Once they corrupt the young women of Poland, as they have corrupted the young women of Western Europe and America, it's game over. Clown World wins.

[@Takeawayinataxi]

Mental Conditioning. The government and politicians treat us like we are stupid. 22 billion black hole. Then promise 600 million to war ffs. They weaponise words to keep us from questioning anything and everything. They have a fantastic fantastic life down to us. I love my country but I can't stomach my government.

[@34547]

‘Uk’ isn’t a country. The misery and pessimism, you speak for England and English people.

[@rafaelcid8510]

The scottish ans irish are always so rude against the English people, it's stupid all the English I have met love Scotand ans Ireland

[@34547]

@@rafaelcid8510not sure how you can speak for two nationalities.

[@buried2getover499]

​@@34547shaddap.

[@rafaelcid8510]

@@34547 I speak about my experience, the English consider Scotland ans Ireland as brother countries and in fact they are, they all look the same

[@34547]

@@buried2getover499I’m afraid I don’t speak stupid.

[@chriswilliams436]

No wonder the Empire was so massive, even hundreds of years ago every fucker wanted to leave, some things never change.

[@irasemacarlvi5310]

UK is sinking through depression and misery, well put!

[@naim7466]

Rot started with T Blair initiating mass immigration from Eastern Europe,rest of the World,without building new infrastructure,no politicians or media ever mention how Uk functioned before E Europe coming to the UK,some people blindly go on about Brexit,media and politicians dont mention almost 6 million E Europeans applied for British citizenship,they make out they've gone back to their countries.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Exactly ! Britain is SO bad that 5 million EU Citizens applied for Leave to Remain..!!

[@LauKillamunII]

Truth

[@Jin-Ro]

Weird, I was looking for good umbrellas and this video was there. I have to agree. I'm 54 and I'm bailing next year. Moving to Montana thanks to the US company I work for and I don't plan on coming back. I'm simply done with this country and the British, I'm at the point where I detest them. I realised a few years ago that they had dragged me down with them. The last straw was Labour being voted in. You'll always hear the British say they want change, we're sick of this and that. So what did they do? Put the other party back in power for more of the same. May they live in interesting times because I'm off.

[@jaywalkercrew4446]

Bye. 😂

[@churchillsliver2259]

See ya. The people you surround yourself are obviously bad people. Where I live and go I love the people and surroundings.

[@angelikaschmidt5600]

Up to 20 years ago Britain was a cool, safe, free place. Every body was accepted and could live the life they wanted to without criticism. As he said, the banter, music and freedom was great, the streets were energising and on sunny days it was magical. Nobody had anything to say about anyone else, nobody talked about politics or money or other people’s private lives…ever. Then millions of Stasi and nasty envious EuroTrash moved in, completely deluded about themselves and London to the point of schizophrenia. That quickly turned into disappointment and self-hatred and then criminal, evil venomous hatred. It took the British decades to realise they were being targeted. They tried to get them out, but it looks like Putin is going to have to nuke them out, or the Muslims scaring them out would be preferable, so the British can go back to pick up the pieces and start again.

[@thadtuiol1717]

Ha! I realized that back in 97 and left. So many better countries/people out there. British people and culture sucks, so boring, obsessed with house prices and football.

[@marleyite]

Jin-Ro Personally I don't think there's much of a difference between Labour and the Conservatives, just the same crew dressed in different suits.

[@sparky6996]

Left the uk 15 years ago. Very sad to watch whats happening. It's completely broken.

[@jperez7893]

"it rains 3 days out of 2" lmao. british humor doesn't disappoint

[@connie2202002]

Lol

[@jaywalkercrew4446]

Hypothetically, "it would probably rain on the third day."

[@jjval406]

That's a lot of rain 😆

[@lervish1966]

You can't drink sunshine.

[@lawn38]

British people are great, it’s the establishment that’s terrible but we keep voting them into power.

[@NGCS-ej4lz]

Hence culture, the public are the activists, they're not just complicit, they're 100% responsible.

[@dianablackman4528]

The British people are brainwashed to accept a rigid class system that still predominates. This makes them apathetic.

[@Calamitytoo]

No they aren’t. They are the most miserable bunch of fools ever.

[@AntecGreeno83]

@@NGCS-ej4lzI agree

[@ajs41]

They're only there because people in this country voted for them.

[@LadyLuck8_4]

It’s full of bureaucrats, depressing and inconsistent weather, unequal, culturally dull/rigged all in combination.

[@Contentibus]

Yep. I’ve advised all my kids to leave as soon as they’re able. We will no longer pay for criminally incompetent fiscal policies of this and previous governments.

[@kidda74]

Mee too, I'm 50 now and my kids are still growing up. I keep telling them they should consider going to live abroad. shot to pieces here, the weather is just the icing on the shit cake!

[@davebellamy4867]

You are doing exactly the right thing. I think that kids need to acquire the skills to leave as soon as they are choosing their subjects for GCSE.

[@Student-v8w]

UK's climate is whats bad about this place and everyone being so moody and lack of community.

[@GAMLAPATTE]

They're not incompetent. They're intentionally destroying the country.

[@p111nad]

I said the exact same thing. U K is no longer a liveable place for our kids, society and public services has collapsed.

[@Wildrover82]

Add Ireland into the equation too. We used to have good pub culture, but they seem to be doing their best to destroy that in recent years.

[@alaypatel6050]

Google name of your pm. You ll know. Oil and beer dont mix.

[@SiL-uj2zl]

I live almost 50% of the time in France and realise that although many French are pessimistic, they know how to enjoy life even in the north....in the UK people are just miserable and/or crazy

[@netcurtains]

Stupid comment

[@user-zi6uf7qn9w]

I travel through France often when i visit Italy,i find the French in general polite and i see that they enjoy life very similar in attitude to the Italians.I live in Italy 50% each year.

[@thadtuiol1717]

@@user-zi6uf7qn9w Italians and French have decent food cultures of their own (not imported from Asia), families and beautiful architecture. Britons have none of that.

[@user-zi6uf7qn9w]

@@thadtuiol1717 I agree 💯👍

[@Ddd-w8e]

Im in france and couldn't disagree more😂 us british people know how to make a laugh out of even the most horrific situation

[@user-sg1wn7ho2r]

To be fair, I think you're referring to England more than the UK as a whole. As an English person, it's so much more friendly and communal up in Scotland. There's not the rigid class system. The weather may be a bit rubbish but the landscapes are amazing and you are free to explore them without the access restrictions you get in England (with its 'get off my land you peasant' mentality). I'd move there without hesitation if there were more job opportunities.

[@sandymcgregor8858]

I lived and worked in the UK in various places, London, villages in Norfolk and Hertfordshire 30 years ago. It was the happiest of my life, the people, the pubs and the heritage. A Wonderful time which I will treasure always. ❤ From New Zealand.

[@piotrwojdelko1150]

As a Pole I'm afraid of going to the British pub .Normally they could hide their real thinking .Nowadays I'm afraid of their primitive instinct or behaviour which was suppressed before Brexit ...I could visit British pub before Brexit.I have my own flat but it is hard to understand how others could survive .Housing is very expensive more than in France .In Poland when you lose job you could somehow maintain for a few months here I would expect homeless,There is also kinda of energy crisis or climate crisis ..Maintenance of my modest flat costs me 400£ without mortgage .it doesn't make sense to have your own flat in this country...They are going to build more council houses but who is going to pay for it .This is obvious that I can't hold decent life for 700£ my pension prediction..

[@tomjones6106]

I only read the first too line and it made me think, I’ve never saw a polish guy in a pub. That’s actually crazy to think about

[@astyaworld2858]

Your desorption is correct primitive instincts and behaviour, I will ad xenophobic, arrogance. I would understand if thry really were better but it is not like this. I had expeicne of living in Poland and in the UK. Polish cities as Wroclaw, Poznan, Gdansk have such a level of culture when in bars or Friday night. I think how to come back to Poland, due to establishing roots here

[@astyaworld2858]

Job seeker allowance and hosuing benefit will cover your or few months when lose job anyway.

[@ty194]

You're speaking absolute nonsense. Why don't you go into a pub first before making assumptions about British people. Sounds like you're the one who who's a xenophobe.

[@ty194]

You're talking absolute nonsense. How about you go into a pub and get first hand experience rather than making assumptions about the British public?

[@nobody-x7g]

Nailed it! I love my country. We have massive talent, inventiveness and ideas. We are the birthplace of the industrial revolution. Our heritage of writers, scientists and artists is second to none. We are one of the most tolerant nations in the world. But our leaders have betrayed, manipulated us and they actually hate their own people. Left permanently at age 67. Now it has become an Orwellian nightmare.

[@thadtuiol1717]

Sssshhh, you've been in decline since 1914 and now you're a cringeworthy joke of a country. Barking little pipsqueaks hiding behind America.

[@rhambo5554]

An overcrowded Orwellian nightmare

[@joebloggs8292]

Correct!

[@carrocesta]

Politicians are a reflection of the society that voted them.

[@ajs41]

Our leaders are only there because the people voted for them. So the voters are to blame for that.

[@johngower2208]

the digital transformation is worrying. the glorification and reliance on digital technology in every aspect of life. I often feel like I want to go back in time

[@dr.impossibleofcounterpunc1984]

You just wait when A.I. takes the economy over. The next 30 to 40 yrs will see significant changes that will push unemployment to the limit worldwide. The over reliance on robotics and androids in the workplace and at home. Societal changes will be huge. It's already happening where I work. It's the slow death of work.

[@greenwendal5056]

@@dr.impossibleofcounterpunc1984 It's already happening at a record pace. The company I work for is opening a new warehouse near me. I asked if I could transfer. It's pretty much all automated😐They barely need any staff. a few years ago a depot as big as that would need around 1000 staff. I bet its less than 100 now.

[@JohnL-ml7iv]

@@dr.impossibleofcounterpunc1984 Electronics are very easy to destroy. Always remember that. :)

[@dr.impossibleofcounterpunc1984]

@JohnL-ml7iv You can destroy it, but the more advanced it becomes, the greater control those that whield this technology have to domesticate us. Smart phones are already playing a significant part in our lives.

[@samirsaid7658]

I am so happy that Britain’s smoke less and drink less, Alcohol is very bad for us, we rather be healthy than socialising with alcohol and drugs, Britain is going towards the right path.

[@anjadelrey6051]

I was born and raised in Bosnia. I always felt inexplicable pull toward England as a kid, and this continued later on. I studied British history and culture on my own and felt as if l lived there already. In 2015, l went to live in Ireland, and as soon as Britan opened the borders for Croatian citizens, l wasted no time. I came to London without knowing a single soul in the city. Nevertheless, l felt elevated even though l was working class, living in sharing. I have never been in a country so suitable for my character, a country in such an alignment with who l am inside. It's hard to explain. Anyway, in 2023, l had to leave. It became unbearable to deal with rents and massive exploitation of tenants even if l was with partner now. We moved to Vienna. Quality of life is a way better in any possible way, but l feel so dull and alienated here. I could not have imagined l will miss the UK so much to the point l could not look at the pictures of London. I never missed my own country like that. Despite feeling homesick for England, realistically, there is no point in coming back. It would be financial suicide. Luckily, l have settled status, and l keep hoping it will get better soon.

[@matthewbowen517]

Thanks for your story. I am in a constant state of turmoil, inner struggle, as I wrestle with my absolute love of my history and culture, but a pure detestment for everything occurring now. On the one hand, I desperately just want my country to be fixed, so I can envision a future here and stay. But, the realist in me knows it's likely not to happen, I get the feeling that this is an existential crisis fast running out of time. So on the other I desperately want to get out and live in Asia, where there is optimism in the air. If it wasn't for family ties, I would leave today. I just feel completely trapped. Best of luck to you and your new life in Vienna, and hope you feel less alienated as you settle in more.

[@anjadelrey6051]

@matthewbowen517 l relate entirely. After a decade of living in other countries, l wish l can go back home at least for a while and rest in my own house, on my own land freely but depressing atmosphere and rotten political and economical situation in Bosnia makes it very difficult to do so. In the same time, l fully realised that the Western capitalistic system is nothing but scam and slavery, living in concrete cages, paying high rents, working 9-5 like a robot absolutely makes no sense. As you said, it makes you feel trapped. I would add anxious as well, as if l am in exile. As an average person, since l can't have it all, l figured l would do half-half. Half a year in Bosnia, in the countryside, growing my own food, managing my time as l want to, without bosses, toxic work places, and so on. And the other half working in England or any other western country, financing those 6 months of freedom. By the way, l have a strange feeling that current situation in the UK is some sort of reset. And it might get better rather soon than later. I can't find a rational explanation for this it's just a vague feeling. Maybe l am wrong.

[@BrianMurfitt]

Britain has a lot going for it, but that potential is not fully utilised. Currently, the main problems are the cost of living and wages not keeping up with inflation, feeling like a foreigner in your own country or a second class citizen, because migrants are sometimes getting better treatment than the indigenous population. Also, the problem with the Brits is a lack of confidence and over the past thirty years an agenda of racial guilt which is unwarranted as Britain showed the initiative in abolishing the transatlantic slave trade and is one of the least racist countries in the West. Something, we should all be proud of and made clear to every foreigner/migrant who constantly criticises us. Finally, the political system is corrupt and degrading this country, there must be more action on fair political representation and limits to their expenses and salaries, whilst in office. Unfortunately, I think things will get worse before they get better! 😢

[@MrHispanicpride]

You’ve nailed it. 100% agree.

[@marleneditrich7354]

Well, but you have a royal family, everyone is bowing down to them and so concerned about their well-being. Something to be cheerful about.

[@0fficer_friendly]

are the natives white people or anyone who is born in the UK?

[@Answersonapostcard]

@@0fficer_friendly born in the uk to white british parents who have british values

[@0fficer_friendly]

@@Answersonapostcard So if ur parents are Polish but British and have British values, and ur born in the UK, ur a Native?

[@ianxyoutube]

I've lived in many places and disagree with the basic premise here. Britain is no worse than, say, Finland, France or Germany; nor is it much different. I don't think the Netherlands or Belgium or Sweden are any more vibrant than here. Thanks to globalisation and the spread of American monoculture, it is increasingly difficult to tell European countries apart anyway. Popular culture is all the same--same junk food and fashion, same sports, same online culture and platforms, same TV and other entertainment (Hollywood etc). You get handball in Germany and hunting in Scandinavia, but otherwise magazine racks are interchangeable from Milan to Oslo. Only the language and architecture are different. I've been visiting and living in other countries for 40 years and this process of homogenisation has only worsened.

[@meisterlymanu5214]

v good point, but ill add ive been in spain for 11 yrs, after 40 in UK, and its different here. Yes its a liberal country like UK, and has its bureaucracy, but you can set up a biz with real hope here, under blue skies, where costs are far lower apart from tax and staff contracts. With a wonderful health system and a family culture at its heart. Thats a v important difference i dont see in other euro countries.

[@Smallmanbigworld1]

Agreed. The main word from the guy in the video is "it seems". Rather than him actually knowing, he's just guessing from being a guest in those countries. You really need to live with locals in a country for a long period to get a real grasp of that country and not just a touristic view. Every country has its positives and negatives. A lot also has to do with your personal outlook. If you look from a negative eye you'll only see the negatives.

[@MisterWebb]

Italy only has eight mosques. Their quality of life is dozens of times better than ours.

[@dianehghzn7670]

And if you guys dont pull up your socks you” ll have islamisation ) how will England go down the gurgler even futher which seems to be happening allready dont you think ????? Leaving England to a buch of ignorant islamic Arabs would be the destruction of England completely how shamefull !!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😱😱😱😱🥵🥵🥵🥶🥶🥶😢😢😢😢😢absolutely dreadful the queen must be turning in her grave 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🥵🥵🥵🥵

[@scarba]

I’ve lived in the Netherlands and live in Germany now as a Brit. I have to agree with him. Never going back.

[@FunAllDayLong4353]

You're talking about a country that had the mightiest empire the world has ever seen just 100 years ago. To go from being the workshop of the world to an economic basket-case has obviously had a catastrophic effect.

[@careytitan9097]

Joining the EU was our downfall, they have managed our decline and now EU countries own nearly everything we ever owned! We have been stripped bare from the inside out, from our coal, mining, steel, manufacturing, car industries, potteries, airports, sea ports, fishing, railways, water, electricity, gas, post office, potteries, British brands, famous shops and labels, you name it!

[@user-zi6uf7qn9w]

@@FunAllDayLong4353 I have worked in industry all my life, now everything has been out sourced abroad.Foreign investors buy up everything in the UK.Wages are low now in industry, it's small now with no future, glad I am retiring soon!UK is in the toilet!

[@FunAllDayLong4353]

@@user-zi6uf7qn9w Not sure its safe to retire in the UK though is it? Civil unrest is brewing and the finances are likely to collapse as taxation can't keep going up and with it our pensions.

[@PS987654321PS]

Bankers did this to you.

[@arshadali2312]

Not the mightiest empire. That would probably be the USA (which is also coming to an end). The largest in geographical extents -- but large chunks of it were useless and just a burden.. By the late 19th century decline was clear -- Britain was losing to Germany and the USA. And then later, two years into WW2, the exchequer was bankrupt -- the gold reserves had all been sold and the country ended the war in hock to the USA. And then after WW2, recall that food rationing continued until 1954. It's a miracle that the country has survived so long even as conditions have grown steadily worse. Today it's just a minor appendage of the declining US empire.

[@Lexis001]

Can't we the "KZbin collective" change this!?!?! Thousands of us here are saying the same: people are miserable and it's extremely hard to make meaningful connections. Let's change that together!

[@BlackCatNinja]

I think the song "Viva La Vida" perfectly encapsulates Britain's plight... "I used to rule the world, seas would rise when I gave the word. Now in the morning I sleep alone, sweep the streets I used to own..."

[@drd444]

The British have always had a pessimistic and reserved outlook. But nowadays i think social media has changed that to self hate. How can a country grow and become better if everyone in the country just hates it. Massive psychological problem here.

[@GooberProject]

Outside london it is beautiful

[@VOLightPortal]

The real UK does not revolve around London

[@cultfiction3865]

​@@GooberProjectYou need to go abroad more if you think England is beautiful

[@GooberProject]

@@cultfiction3865you need to get to more places in England if you think it isn’t

[@lamandhbbf3639]

@@GooberProjectOn the contrary, rest of the country outside of London feels 3rd world, I feel London share more and is more integrated into the continent then the rest the provincial backwaters that is the res of the U.K I don’t live in London or thing that it is perfect but many young people feel the need to relocate their to better their living standards

[@churchillsliver2259]

Cost of living, traditions sacrificed for wokery, immigration, constant dire governments is a start of why it’s miserable. Still I’m very proud of England and love the people and the culture. You obviously don’t see this where you live.

[@ibrahimkuyumcu2649]

Cost of living blamed on poor immigrants? 😂😂

[@Safonol]

@@ibrahimkuyumcu2649 he never blamed it on immigrants

[@sanniepstein4835]

​@@ibrahimkuyumcu2649excess immigration drives rents up and wages down in any country.

[@So_Meh]

It’s not: “how the people are” it’s… “how the people are treated.”

[@LauKillamunII]

1mil %

[@So_Meh]

@@LauKillamunII I know right. After three decades of being harried, harangued and humiliated… wait maybe it’s even a quarter of a century ago all this started… you’d think we’d have a fair few things to moan about. Deep in our souls we aren’t a miserable people, we are currently reasonably miserable because we are reacting to a legitimately awful situation that’s been forced on us against our will and our better judgment.

[@ianworley8169]

I left in my early 40s in 2002. Sold my house, packed my job in, gave all my material shit away and moved to Portugal. It's got far, far worse since then. Privatisation, Brexit, Covid and 14 years of Tory austerity have bled the country dry. Its just got steadily far, far worse. I've lived here since then and every day I've felt blessed to be here. Not been back since a short visit in 2018. I decided then I'd never set foot in Britain again.

[@jimmyjt16]

Can’t I ask how you managed to find a job out there?

[@mauriceholder1386]

All in the name of equity. You can't make everyone equally prosperous, but you can make everyone equally miserable.

[@MillywiggZ]

Nothing more tedious than a well travelled Londoner telling you not to be miserable.

[@movingforward23on]

I'm a 33 year old badly abused woman, born in east anglia..ended up in north east derbyshire, been hell on earth my whole life. Had antisocial neighbours for a decade, sleep deprivation, fear.. lost my career from it - no councils care, police cant do anything. I'm too old to get out of this cesspit of a country now and too ill to work to try and retrain - as you say young people- get out whilst you can. My mental health has been ignored by the nhs for years and even now i'm under adult safeguarding and classed as high risk and they still neglect me. I moved out to the peak district in 2022 and even now the council keep moving in chavvy scrotes with no goals in life other than to intimidate and make their neighbours lives hell knowing they'll get away with it due to inhumane council workers and police, the whole system is beyond saving and no one cares about anyone here nor how much they ruin strangers lives. Get out while you can, seriously. I wish i could leave for a happier climate, all countries have their good and bad but the uk is fucked and it was fucked 15 years ago let alone now. Do your best, be free

[@Jin-Ro]

You're 33. You're young as hell. You sound like you have nothing to lose, so use that to your advantage. You can't fall off the top of the ladder if you're on the bottom step. That's how I see things anyway. Take chances. Take control. Tell yourself that this is NOT your lot in life.

[@call_in_sick]

Too old you’re 33 pull yourself together!!

[@vipeton.8927]

I'm 44 but I'm ready to go to Paraguay and start my life there. Wanna come with me? Anyway, you are still young, don't write yourself off! 😊

[@vipeton.8927]

​@@Jin-Rocorrect attitude. As a man with terrible anxiety I'm slowly recovering and you are absolutely right!

[@amelie-db7gu]

But you're complaining that people have no direction but also writing yourself off at a young age? We have to take whatever control of our lives we can and keep pushing!

[@arshadali2312]

There's a reason for the "culture of misery" -- Britain is generally a miserable place to live. In the immediate post-WW2 period there were mitigating factors -- free health care, free university education, council houses, abundant jobs (even if they didn't pay much). Slowly. over the decades, that's all vanished. You pay for university, no council houses, no jobs, yes health care but the NHS is stressed and under-funded, and dying of a thousand cuts.

[@richardmcdougall233]

In Scotland under SNP free uni fees, higher social housing no council house sales, NHS 20 % higher funded pp, increased social funds etc

[@Answersonapostcard]

NHS also infected by the woke mind virus, so millions wasted on that

[@annabelsmart5305]

@@richardmcdougall233 apparently Scotland is broken economically- just visited Dad in Scotland (he’s Scottish) and he rarely comments on politics, so I took note

[@rhysfridays3871]

socialists like yourselves destroyed it. you still havent figured out the basic fact that government is wasteful.

[@AlanCelia]

"Hangging on in quiet desperration is the English way......" Pink Floyd

[@skrapadelix]

Your comments are spot on. I grew up in Southern England in the 1980s but it wasn’t until I took a temporary job in the Netherlands that I realized how shit the UK had become. I ended up migrating to Canada 10 years ago and everyday I breathe a sigh of relief that I finally escaped. Even though there are problems here as well with the cost of living, too much unskilled migration and generally poor governance, life is so much better here and my children have a brighter future

[@619WWEFAN]

How different would you compare Canada when you first arrived compared to Canada nowadays?

[@skrapadelix]

@@619WWEFANCanada has changed a lot in the last decade, all for the worse. I’m insulated from a lot of the negative effects as I’m in a rural area and semi-off grid but the mood has darkened perceptibly. There’s a nationwide anger and resentment towards the swathes of new migrants particularly those from from the Punjab who are suppressing wages and largely failing to integrate into Canadian society. People no longer recognize the country they grew up in and there’s a creeping sense of despair and alienation. The runaway housing crises, the disastrous drug legalization program and a tone deaf political elite who are more concerned with empty virtual signalling and lining their own pockets are the icing on the cake. But after saying that, I’d still rather be here than the UK, at least for now

[@JohnL-ml7iv]

@@skrapadelix 'failing to integrate.' Think on this for a bit. Would you really want that? What does the endgame of 'integration' look like? Your daughter married off to Ranjeet Singh? We don't want integration. There are other processes that need to happen, if you get my meaning.

[@skrapadelix]

@@JohnL-ml7iv by integrating into society I mean to the basic extent of avoiding public defecation, respecting traffic laws, no fly tipping, following basic health and safety practices at home and in the work place and learning basic spoken and written English. Simple things really

[@Maddie_Madds]

You're absolutely right. I went to Pennsylvania USA (First time leaving UK in 8 years), and everyone was giving me support and complimenting me that I found it wonderful, but also strange. I also saw more trees, nature, & breathed more fresh air than ever. I'm 31, and I'm fed up of the UK. A move to the USA is really on my mind now. It's also amazing how Brits immediately just talk down about the USA and it's people. I'm honestly scared though & don't know where to start. I need to do my research.

[@TheBestblue486]

The US is a mess. But i didnt see England so cant compare.

[@sailic1067]

Me, an International student who deliberately chose UK as their home in my 20s 👁️👄👁️

[@Jin-Ro]

And was it everything you hoped for?

[@YoAddicts]

Hong Konger here with over 10 years of experience living in the UK. You see where I'm getting at. I think I'm going to Australia for a better life.

[@YoBoyMarcus]

@@YoAddicts Australia? Do you know how expensive Australia is? Hope you're rich.

[@YoAddicts]

@@YoBoyMarcus Is it more than Canada? It costs $3,000 just to rent in Toronto

[@stommx]

Well said. As a man in my mid 50's you're a very articulate and intelligent young man. Not being patronising, btw. The same thing is now happening in Ireland, which used to be one of the happiest countries in the whole world. Now, we have the same WEF controlled government, like in the UK, destroying our once precocious country and culture. It's disgraceful, really.

[@Theyplanit]

I proud of uk Stonehenge Glastonbury National trust Isle of Wight festival Cream teas South coast Good passport Countryside Pets Cottages Castles Fish and chips Etc

[@javebury]

I met a young dutch guy recently and i said i like holland and he said.. 'its ok, but the people are not as friendly as the British', Maybe he was talking about ppl up north but he was in the south when i met him.

[@happyslappy5203]

Bobby Duffy, director of the Policy Institute at King’s College London: "Of 24 nations included in a study by the Policy Institute at King’s College London, people in the UK emerge as the least likely to say work is important in their life. Around one in four of those surveyed in the U.K. said work is very or rather important to them. That’s a much lower proportion than in the U.S. and France, where 80% and 94% said the same, respectively. " British workers are miserable.

[@jaspermystic]

The big problem with Brits is that our culture has tanked. We're a proud people and after the fall of the Empire, got our self respect back through having some of the best music, which brought in the respect of other nations. We're a big hearted people too, but have always found it difficult to express that between ourselves. We needed the approval of other nations, because we haven't been able to give it to each other. I'm English and love the island of Britain. I respect the tolerance of the British, but am frustrated at how we hide ourselves behind a fake wall of superiority and suspicion. It's just a defence mechanism which doesn't work any more, because we're not creating any world class culture to feel good about. Our little island has had a tremendous impact on the world, because we are an amazing people. We just have to know that in a really humble way. The main thing is to stop trusting politicians and people in authority. Britain has a bad reputation of oppressing other nations, but ordinary British people have been treated as badly by their rulers as anyone else. We need to wake the f*** up and take care of ourselves and communities, rather than docilely following orders. That goes for Army and Police personnel too. Love you Britain. 🥰

[@tarlkoroban3733]

Britain is finished. Get out.

[@tom-n8y1u]

It's the same government in all other countries

[@Answersonapostcard]

@@tom-n8y1u no it isnt

[@annabelsmart5305]

Possibly a similar UN agenda but populations are v different. I’m going to Eastern Europe because people are confident to say NO to their governments.

[@tom-n8y1u]

@@Answersonapostcard yes it is

[@LauKillamunII]

​@Answersonapostcard it honestly soon will be

[@Sabhail_ar_Alba]

Standards in Britain right across the country have drastically slipped over the past decade due party to political mismanagement but also because of mass immigration which has eroded any sense of national identity. Both of which make me unhappy.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Any nation which completely surrenders all sense of National Identity and Social Cohesion because of uncontrolled will end up like Britain......the damage is incalculable. . Import hundreds of thousands of people who despise your Culture and History and what outcome do you expect..???!

[@ajs41]

I think life in British peaked in the 1990s, and has slowly been getting worse since then.

[@happyslappy5203]

« UK has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, study by WHO finds. More than half of children in Britain had drunk alcohol by age 13 »

[@malthus101]

F the WHO

[@cocorita]

The problem in Britain is not children drinking. Plenty of it in other cultures. Children always try to experience things. The problem is how normalized are ADULTS drinking until they get blind drunk. In other cultures, getting drunk is completely frown upon.

[@bobhill-ol7wp]

What a dumb comment lol, that could range from one sip to a pint every day

[@greenwendal5056]

I started drinking whiskey at 12.

[@oliverwortley3822]

@@happyslappy5203 out of the multitude of problems with britain, I do not think this is one. We all had our first little glass of wine or sherry at sunday dinner round grandma’s or christmas. I find 12 and 13 year olds going to house parties and getting drunk a problem, but that is in the more deprived areas where people have checked out and the parents don’t care.

[@nealben76]

I taught English in Russia for 11 years, and despite the, ahem, “questionable” politics, I loved it. I left when the war started, and came back to a Britain that had been completely screwed up by the Tories for over a decade (and don’t even get me started on Brexit!). Over two years later and frankly I’m still not quite over the shock of how much it’s gone down the pan. Now Labour seems to be doing very little to even fix it, let alone make it better 😒

[@oliverwortley3822]

Our houses are small, cramped, old, not modern, stuffy, outdated etc… We don’t have nice houses unless you’ve got money from inheritance and have a good job and can afford a £500,000 house (and that’s in my area, mansfield - a run down, deprived, post-industrial town). Our infrastructure is the same - old, outdated, crumbling etc… Our services - especially public services, are lacking. There’s little social mobility and the class system hasn’t disappeared, it’s just adapted and evolved instead. There’s no second chances and you don’t get chances and opportunities to uplift yourself and move up the ladder. Our quality of life is lower than it should be and is increasingly declining. I just need to emphasise just how LOW our quality of life is. Our wages are lower, and LOW altogether - especially compared to what they should be for BRITAIN of all countries. Americans earn double as us. Even Poland has caught up to us. Opportunities are limited. The cost of living is high. We are the sixth largest economy in the world - but it doesn’t feel like it - it’s very bizzare. We don’t have great leaders and statesmen like the days past - our leaders have no long term plan and strategy; we are bereft of the grand strategies and great statesmen like Salisbury of the past. Our communities and neighbourhoods are becoming alien, foreign and unrecognisable due to immigration. People inherently know this and have given up and checked out.

[@ajs41]

The Dutch have just elected a far-right government.

[@platinum11110]

👏🏻👏🏻

[@ashasandhiasingaram3900]

Summed it up perfectly. And then there's the waiting times to see a GP...

[@lbunnygordon1133]

It s the lack of an even av wage thats made people lose hope ordinary people have lost out to poverty and for a while now however you excel at your job redundqncy has been rife ruinibg many lives as not just automatic you ld get another job...hence devts stsrt and you know the rest.

[@greenwendal5056]

Sorry to tell you but they indeed do have a grand plan. The great reset. agenda 21, 30, 50. the 4th industrial revolution. remember 2020.......rockerfellers lockstep. This is how the elite want it.

[@pilotandy1333]

Here in Australia the people have become unbearably miserable, it has got much worse in the last 5 years.

[@daveball6023]

Which Australia are you living in? Certainly not the one I have lived in for the past 50 years after leaving Britain.

[@pfhastie]

This is the effect of enforced multiculturalism. It's the denial of those who are unaffected by it that is the primary driver of the anger.

[@GG-hu9dn]

But not wet, damp, and cold all the time?!

[@pollywaffledoodah3057]

You are completely wrong about that! I'm an Aussie, and we are usually cheerful and optimistic about the future. You must be mingling with the wrong types of people, or living in a bit of a dump - there are dumps in every country. Why are Aussies generally so upbeat? Because constant sunshine is a natural anti-depressant. Get outdoors a bit more often, pal! Trust me, your mood will improve - and this has nothing to do with how much money you have.

[@BLUESKY-zt1nv]

@@pollywaffledoodah3057 some people just make things up ..personally i say he is bullshitting crap .!!

[@seanrm]

Message to UK youngsters considering university: 1. Go to the best university that you can (and like) and get your undergraduate degree - regardless of the cost. 2. Investigate what help is available for postgraduate studies and, if you are lucky enough, avail yourself of that, too. 3. Leave the UK

[@majordelays4909]

Better still go to a foreign university

[@OliverTwist-vv4xh]

Then you are encouraging traitorous behaviour. Stand your ground build and breed 💪

[@JohnSmith-sm7ez]

@@majordelays4909no. Uk has the best universities

[@LauKillamunII]

​@OliverTwist-vv4xh this is the only solution but it's very long term.

[@thehighestofclouds9890]

We have a work, drink culture. Go to work, come home, drink and watch TV. Designed that way by corporate types who think they know better. Completely soulless. Britain needs to step away from drinking if it is to have a bright future. The damage it does is unrepairable and destroys lives. Small minded culture (especially in the small towns) revolves around drinking, football, ego-driven cringey packs of men. Best thing to start is to turn off your television and help your local community by any means necessary.

[@musicfuhrer]

The misery begins with the political system. An unelected Head of State, unelected Second Chamber, P.M chosen by their own party. Most people living in safe seats so their votes don't count. It's difficult to be happy in a system where you can't change anything. Look at how young people supported Corbym but the whole establishment conspired to ensure he didn't get into office. Brexit was the final straw for me. I escaped to Asia too. Loving it and never want to go back to the U.K.

[@Answersonapostcard]

People in Colombia, Peru, Mexico, and neighbouring countries, a lot of them are struggling but are far more optimistic about life, they maintain those family connections, enjoy their meals, the sunshine and being far more in the present moment. They don't spend their time worrying about tomorrow. British people are always rushing around as if its the last day on earth, they don't slow down and enjoy their food, there is no "sobremesa" where they allow time for conversation after the meal, everything is rush rush rush and consume consume consume. However British people are happier during the summer months, weather does have an impact, we seriously get fed up with it after so many years on this island.

[@BrokenBritain4u]

Excellent video mate . You nailed it ! I lived in Uk 🇬🇧 for 25yrs nobody in the uk 🇬🇧 wants you to succeed everyone pulls each other down . The quality of life has deteriorated seriously over the last 10/15 years tremendously! Crime is out of hand and nothing works anymore. The healthcare doesn’t exist . I had to leave the Uk last year because I just could not get the healthcare I needed. I can never ever live in the Uk 🇬🇧 ever again . I recommend people to get the hell out of the Uk , in my opinion it will collapse.

[@nemezis4sure]

Even Poland is less miserable than UK

[@lervish1966]

How much less?

[@BritishRail60062]

The UK has changed in the last 30 years and its not for the better. I have seen a lot of changes in life which is designed to destroy morale and make us miserable. I am happy within myself and as much as I used to love the UK. It rips my heart out to see it come to this. I have detracted myself and I am going to find a new country to call home that aligns with my energies better.

[@ajs41]

Problem is people voted for it. They kept voting for Tony Blair in 1997, 2001 and 2005, who everyone knew was in favour of high levels of migration.

[@BritishRail60062]

@@ajs41 To be honest with you mate. That's just one of the problems. The UK used to be self sufficient and we used to make our own stuff before 96% of it got outsourced to overseas like China and other countries. It breaks my heart to see the UK die. The modern UK people are not responsible for what our ancestors did in history as they were not even born. As far Blair, there is a place in hell for that traitor.

[@ichol]

The default state of the British - particularly the English - is a depressive mental disorder. The primary social values are shame, dishonesty, avoiding looking foolish and constant policing of rank of others and oneself. This is more deeply rooted than just the last decade of economic decline. British English is full of turns of phrase that reinforce this and infantilize the population (“to be honest,” go to the “loo”). The people are actively hostile to individualism because they are so enraged about their own sacrificed identity. Free speech barely exists because causing to much of a ruckus is often viewed as a greater crime than whatever the ruckus might be about. Yes, this is true to an extent in Canada or Australia in different quantities, but England is the mothership. Whatever culture is the next-worse and next-most neurotic in these respect is a distant second place. Thanks to Brexit - the ultimate manifestation of all of this projected - the country will sink into the sea. Its best hope are the waves of immigrants who might save the people from themselves.

[@Gioachino_Orsini]

"There is this culture of misery and pessimism that is really quite contagious" - I agree wholeheartedly.

[@ajs41]

A lot of it is play-acting in my opinion. In order to be regarded as a "pretty sound" sort of person, you have to complain and moan all the time. I refuse to do it, and it means I've never been popular.

[@TheWanderingMason]

As someone with autism, I literally thought I was always the problem. I go in any other country, even Ireland, and I felt supported and lifted. People are so miserable then you try to help or start a business or event; they're such a let-down. They dont want to change.

[@user-be2il8wu6s]

We had one chance to fix this country, and that was to vote for Labour when Corbyn was leader. We missed our chance.

[@andyr5455]

Spot on. The plutocrats media destroyed him and the masses took the bait. Fools.

[@gavinlucas22]

100% agree. Many capitalists don't understand he would have helped them, too.

[@jannenreuben7398]

The historian Corelli Barnett had it right when he said the British never had the kind of mental revolution that its competitors did. People say that the UK is a Victorian relic but its even worse than that, it is a Georgian one. It has pretty much the same governance as it did in the 1770s and underlying mindset of its people has moved on little too. This is remarkable in a country that has produced so many innovations over the years.

[@cheeks7050]

Mass immigration and fiat currency that has been over printed leading to large inflation.