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Video: How Britain Became a Poor Country (Patreon)

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2024-07-01 16:09:21
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Hey 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

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How Britain Became a Poor Country

Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/tomnicholas Watch my Nebula-exclusive class "How to Research Like a PhD Student": https://nebula.tv/how-to-research-like-a-phd-student?ref=tomnicholas A video about how Britain kinda fell apart. Written, directed and presented by Tom Nicholas. Edited by Georgia Burrows. *Chapters* 00:00 Introduction 02:36 David Cameron's Cuts Cuts Cuts 11:43 The Brexit Boys 22:53 Covid & Consequences 33:55 Keir Starmer, or, David Cameron Mk II 36:42 A Very Exciting Announcement! *Blurb* Britain kinda sucks now. Over the past 14 years, it's become a poorer, nastier and far less hopeful place. As the country prepares to head to the polls in the 2024 general election, I thought I'd review exactly how we got here. This is the story of how the British Conservative Party under David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak subjected the UK to a series of unhinged free-market experiments which ate away at the very foundations of British economic, social and political life. This is the story of how Britain became a poor country. Support my work on Patreon at https://patreon.com/tomnicholas Twitch: http://twitch.tv/tom_nicholas Twitter: http://twitter.com/tom_nicholas Instagram: http://instagram.com/tomnicholaswtf Patreon: http://patreon.com/tomnicholas Website: http://www.tomnicholas.com Select footage courtesy of Getty Music from Epidemic Sound

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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.

QuanticPotato
>>142459621

Lately = probably since the Liz Truss thing. That was my "wait, wasn't that a serious country?" moment.

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.