How Britain Became a Poor Country

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Who knew 14 years of Tory Austerity would destroy the country

We elected the Tories, then kept re-electing them, then did a Brexit. Ok ok I'll actually watch the video now...but that is the short answer.

The fact that Cameron not only got away with it, BUT BECAME A LORD is the ultimate tragedy.

„Liz Truss“ is gonna be a really cool answer for trivia nights all over the world: „Who was prime minister when QE2 died?“

"Then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak". Future-proofing the video while also (correctly) predicting he won't be in office much longer.

Imagine hating poor people so much that you continually vote yourself into deeper and deeper poverty....

for anyone who wants to privatize the NHS, i want you to hear my experience as an american. I broke my leg around this time last year, requiring surgery to put in a metal plate, and insurance paid for nothing, because i didn't file an accident report (while completely bedridden for four months). it is completely impossible to talk to someone at the insurance company who can give me an accident report. after recovering from that, i was diagnosed with adhd and prescribed medication. the insurance refused to pay for the generic medication prescribed, and instead recommended one that they've openly been paid to promote. my doctor wrote something called a "prior authorization", where you basically ask the insurance company to please pay for the required treatment, and they said no. so i take the adhd medication my insurance company recommends for profit, and my doctor has no say in it. they refused to pay for hrt outright and i pay for that out of pocket. i can't even sort through the collections letters. if you think the nhs is bad, you need to know that it can be so much worse. please do not privatize it.

I'll never forgive the fact that we were suckered into 'clapping' for people who really needed PPE, protection, real support and pay rises.

BTW, the "there is no money" letter was a running joke always left by the outgoing party. However, the Tories turned it into a political weapon.

Austerity kills, and it doesn't even save you money in the long term

there is a saying in korea 'when rich fall to ruin they still last 3 generations.' the saying basically tells the story as is, but also colloquially taken more as 'it's about time they got poor.' you had a good run, lads.

For the Americans who need reminding each time the graphs appear: Conservative is blue Labor is pink.

I went to work in the UK in 2015 and went back home just 9 months later. As a Hungarian I sometimes faced open hostility. I'm bilingual, yet people would tell me "you can't understand me because your English is poor" when I told them no because their request was impossible. I saw some open disdain from colleagues. Work conditions were bad. I made minimum wage working in hotels. Most people there were immigrants. I lived in a room with the bathroom at the end of the hall, the heater didn't work in the winter. I was contracted for 40h, had to work 52. I ended up with severe depression because I was exhausted, tired of the working and living conditions, the hostility I saw from hotel guests, the British coworkers and even sometimes shopkeepers. When I was home already Brexit happened and someone I thought was a friend put up an anti immigrant post. I said something about that's how we met. He wrote back that I'm good because I already went back home. Yeah, nice. So that's a look from the other side. Also food on minimum wage was really hard.

It's kind of bizarre that Johnson's hypocricy around the C rules damaged him and his party far more than half a decade of objective cruelty towards the weakest members of society. "Let the poor freeze and starve but don't stop me from getting wasted in my pub!"

15:54 "at 4:40am 24th June 2024 the BBC announces that the UK had voted to leave the EU"..... whoops

You gotta love people... "I hate the Prime Ministers policies, he's sent a million people to foodbanks!.... But also, look at how that guy eats his bacon sandwich, no thanks." Pardon me for not feeling bad.

Can we in the western world collectively accept that conservative economic policies don’t work, please?

Shoutout to Liz for proving that even markets don't like libertarians.

"brexit means brexit" sounds like it means that people don't fully understand the implications of it and they want people to think about what it actually means more.