Tom Nicholas
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Video: How Britain Became a Poor Country
🕑 Added 2024-07-01 16:09:21 +0000 UTCHey Everyone!
Happy Monday and Happy New-Video-Release Day too!
About five weeks ago, as we began work on a completely different project, Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister of the UK, announced a general election.
And, as someone who makes video about politics on the internet and is British, it felt like it would be a bit weird if we didn’t make anything to coincide with it.
So, we paused work on the other (very exciting!) project we’d just begun, and pivoted all our energies to making a video which tries to capture some of the massive challenges the United Kingdom is facing at the moment, and how we got here.
It’s been a massive effort to pull it together in time, but hopefully that work has paid off!
For any fellow Brits, I hope this is a fun (or morbid, take your pick!) of the last 14 years in British politics; for those of you watching from elsewhere, I hope it’s an interesting insight into how a country can get itself into such a pickle.
Enjoy, and let me know what you think!
Tom
Comments
jarabaa
Very accurate. Cameron's vile, dishonest cuts. The shameful 2015 election result. The unelected rule of Nigel Farage. The Brexit catastrophe and the Arlene Foster coup. Three years of Theresa May's dithering opportunism. Boris Johnson's ruthless, greedy egomania. Even greedier Tory snouts thrust deep in the COVID spending trough. The heap of ashes left by the blaze of Truss madness. You're right: fourteen awful, ludicrous years of decline.
QuanticPotato
Lately = probably since the Liz Truss thing. That was my "wait, wasn't that a serious country?" moment.
QuanticPotato
Great video. I must say, looking from the outside, I've lately had this curiosity of "wtf is the UK even doing" and I feel like the video was a good, informative answer.
