The UK is over, for one simple and obvious reason : no *YOUNG LEADERS* . Not a single one. So France has Jordan Bardella (second to Marine LePen at just 28 yo), MAGA in the US has Vivek/Vance, dems have AOC. Italy has Meloni. And in the UK, which young kid could replace Corbyn or Farage ? No one ! Case in point.
My surmise is that the distribution of age of the native British population has increased, which probably has something to do with the decline of what we think of as British influence in the realm of pop culture. But the overarching problem is that the UK has caught the American mind virus, it has lost confidence in its own achievements and traditions, and has taught its young people for a generation or so that its culture is "blank" and "bland" and therefore in need of "enrichment" from foreigners. I do watch All Creatures Great and Small though.
What would that “mind virus” involve? Love that Series but that was the Britain of old before two wars laid waist to the country who was considered on the winning side!?
American. The UK's impact on the world cannot be denied. Imagine a world where Britain had never existed. Hard to picture it and it would be beyond sad.
We have 4 out of the top 10 Universities in Global Rankings - Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College, London and University College, London. In the Global Rankings of countries by number of published scientific and technical journal articles the UK takes the No. 3 spot behind China at No.1 and the USA at No. 2 - astonishing given that the UK has a population of 67 Million vs China at 1.442 billion and the USA at 322 Million.
I think waning British influence needn't be a problem (it's a natural cycle of global influence). But, we're just compounding our decline through reckless public spending, poor leadership, and the importation of new demographics (some might say it's a replacement project).
Agree, I don't have a problem with waning influence - I hope it will enable us to become a less exploitative country. The problem is we continue to be governed by utter morons, just like we have for the last 100 years. Successive governments have chip chip chipped away at everything that made us a success and what we have left is nothing. No industry, no sense of self, no social cohesion, and more importantly, no self-confidence. Literally adrift in the seas we used to command.
@easytoassemble54321 It's almost like having the Roman Empire replace all their people with goths and then suddenly realizing your empire isn't roman at all anymore.
The NHS dealt with my mum's serious heart condition recently, within 5 months of diagnosis, and surgery, they saved her life. Guess what? No bill at the end. There are big issues with the NHS, but it's still massively preferable to the US system where profit is paramount, not the individual. Medical debt is in a horrendous place, where many people avoid even seeing a doctor because of the fear of cost.
@taz454 You've proven that the british elites and politicians lie to you about what healthcare means in the United States. In private medicine you select an insurance policy with a monthly premium that fits your lifestyle and preference and budget.....then that policy pays for whatever healthcare you actually need when you go to the hospital. You're never standing there in the emergency room opening your wallet to count out five dollar bills or something. And that monthly premium is considerably "LESS" than the amount of taxes you are paying for your NHS, even ignoring all the rest. Millions of people visiting a hospital every day in the United States are having their lives saved.....and there is "NEVER" any government controlled healthcare fraud scam that ever needs to take place for those lives to be saved. Stop being a socialist with ignorance and bigotry about what the "system" in the United States actually is, rather than what propaganda you swallowed.
My granda was told he had a water infection when his leg was about to snap off when he had vertebrae cancer. My mam had to fight to get a scan and get his blood tested because they refused to and said she was wrong. I’ve got multiple stories from family members and myself about how useless it is
They have triage in American hospitals, too. Sometimes there are resource limitations which can't be circumvented no matter how much money you spend. You might be willing to build more hospitals and train more doctors, but that doesn't happen overnight. And the U.S. has fewer doctors than Europe in general, because getting certified is nearly double here than in Europe. We spend more training doctors, we have fewer doctors, and we pay more for those doctors.
The British have a seat at the security council table because we have Nuclear weapons. Also, the British soft power is still extensive. These self-hating Western liberals are tiresome.
I’m English but I’m not addicted to copium. The UK has a seat on the security council because it was on the winning side during ww2. Nothing to do with Nuclear Weapons.
Whether you wanna accept it britain has nuclear power and won ww2 thats the only reason they have a seat not because of pure power like china usa and russia
The UK has a seat on the Security Council because the Council was set up that way in 1945. It's a relic of the political order at the end of World War II. The UK did not have its own nuclear weapons until the early 1950s. France also has a permanent seat on the Council for the very same reasons, and France didn't have nuclear weapons until 1960.
We punched above our weight due to the Industrial Revolution, which brings me to the greatest minds. Those at the top for decades including media have told us to be ashamed of who we are ( I’m not) led women to believe falsely they can have it all, told men your too masculine and instead of encouraging our young in the main to strive for the best they can be have filled their heads with useless rhetoric and told the young they need worthless university degrees a chimp could pass and are as much use as a chocolate teapot. Instead of encouraging industry across the board they have destroyed it. Result we have hardly any home grown trades people, industries or many people with the drive to excel. You are being harsh to a great extent, our contribution to the world of science, technology, the arts etc is prepositional to the size of our country, whereas I grant you before it outstripped every country no matter how big that country was.
Not.weong either I've been lucky enough to not need the GP as have my family but if and when any of us do its a long wait and rigmarole to get seen you turn up and there is hardly an English speaking person in there it is a fucking joke. Easy to fix as well.
The Public Spending List neglected to mention the category of graft! 😂 It’s truly amazing how wealthy many politicians become in their role in such a short time!
Once you introduce a paid service in the UK it will open the door to full privatisation like in the US. Thus the government should cut defence spending and spend in basic health
The amount of scientific papers that come out of the UK every year compared to the rest of the world population is immense. The UK has declined in many ways but not in the ways either of you are talking about. Life expectancy in the UK is way higher than the US, there is your NHS dividend.
Defence is not insurance. Lloyds of London isn't going to send a hit team after the guys who keyed your Aston-Martin. Bitter experience and millennia of history has shown that buying off your enemies is not a sustainable strategy to protect your people.
Britain joining the Common Market during the 1970s was one thing. The European Union was a disaster in the making! But let us go back a little further, the Commonwealth! Okay, left overs from the Empire, but a Commonwealth could have been something. Apart from successive failing British governments royally mucking it up all the time! (Ie, that time an Australian Prime Minister was............asked to leave his job? Anyone remember that? A Commonwealth cock up!)
The commonwealth was too diverse to become something most of the commonwealth countries wanted complete separation from British influence such as India and many countries in Africa not all of them obviously Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Malta wanted to keep a close relationship with the uk and we could’ve formed a close economic union with those countries or we could’ve joined nafta with the USA
Nonsense. The Commonwealth was too big, too diverse and unwieldly to ever become 'something'. Empires only work because there is a clear centre of command which everybody obeys, and with the threat of military retaliation if the subordinates step out of line.
2:40 this is what americans don't understand about scandinavian or swiss "social democracy"..... the reason why those social programs work there isn't because of how they're setup by the system...... it's because they have non-corrupt politicians in charge of that system..... we have the same "social medicare" in slovakia and it's a complete nightmare..... WISH I waited for a specialist appointment for 3 weeks :D we have specialists, where you have to wait for 3-6 MONTHS :D:D and how's that possible when we have the same system as switzerland, belgium or sweden ????? american politicians are unbelievably corrupt..... so, socialized medicare would look much more like eastern european one, rather than western one :D pretty sure of it
Shut the door America 1.8 trillion per year on Medicare/medicaid (health insurance…remember insurance dues not equal healthcare) Nearly 1 trillion in debt interest Nearly 1 trillion on war department And then another 1.4 trillion for social security All told Uncle Sam is spending 7 trillion on 5 trillion in revenue…it’s ducking unreal
Its almost a bit trite to talk about wait times for Dr's . Where the NHS fails is elective surgery and ED bed capability. Now 100% there are far too many people in red tape positions in the NHS (i work in the NHS) so it needs reform. No where is perfection but what people think about the UK is probably excessively hard on herself. That said MM isn't wrong about London its a dump, best city in the UK is York.
I dont completely agree. The U.S. Is an 800 pound gorilla is all. Good and bad. Outside of the U.S. The UK is by far the most influential culture for Americans. Id say Japan next. I lump Australia into the UK bucket as well.
Britain is in decline. No, it’s not. Our influence is major all round the world because we are respected for our knowledge, and wisdom, tolerance and understanding that’s why London is the most important city in the world with 40% of the people are foreign born. That is no accident? 🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧
The Uk is the greatest nation on earth by a long way. Our legal and civil structures are copied everywhere. Even countries that tried to improve our systems worsened them as they did not understand the brilliance
@@Nomadicmillennial92 all these people are speaking English using shallow copies of our legal and political systems. Their ideas and discoveries and all based on our work. We are a tiny island off north west Europe but came in top 4 -8 consistently in the Olympics. Our military is in the top 5. Overall we are the greatest by a long way. Stand up straight English man, if you are worthy of that name
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In what significant ways has British influence in the West declined?
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One need only notice the lack of "great" being used when referring to Britain (formerly Great Britain).
Did you actually like your own pinned comment?! 😄
The UK is over, for one simple and obvious reason : no *YOUNG LEADERS* . Not a single one.
So France has Jordan Bardella (second to Marine LePen at just 28 yo), MAGA in the US has Vivek/Vance, dems have AOC. Italy has Meloni.
And in the UK, which young kid could replace Corbyn or Farage ? No one ! Case in point.
My surmise is that the distribution of age of the native British population has increased, which probably has something to do with the decline of what we think of as British influence in the realm of pop culture.
But the overarching problem is that the UK has caught the American mind virus, it has lost confidence in its own achievements and traditions, and has taught its young people for a generation or so that its culture is "blank" and "bland" and therefore in need of "enrichment" from foreigners.
I do watch All Creatures Great and Small though.
What would that “mind virus” involve? Love that Series but that was the Britain of old before two wars laid waist to the country who was considered on the winning side!?
The Mind Virus was created in France and smuggled into the US educational system via the Frankfurt School.
Britain is ahead on a lot of issues and to some extent it is a benchmark for what will happen to a lot of other countries
bad teeth?
Such as?
Ahead on what issues? 🤷🏼♀️
American. The UK's impact on the world cannot be denied. Imagine a world where Britain had never existed. Hard to picture it and it would be beyond sad.
We have 4 out of the top 10 Universities in Global Rankings - Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College, London and University College, London. In the Global Rankings of countries by number of published scientific and technical journal articles the UK takes the No. 3 spot behind China at No.1 and the USA at No. 2 - astonishing given that the UK has a population of 67 Million vs China at 1.442 billion and the USA at 322 Million.
I think waning British influence needn't be a problem (it's a natural cycle of global influence). But, we're just compounding our decline through reckless public spending, poor leadership, and the importation of new demographics (some might say it's a replacement project).
Agree, I don't have a problem with waning influence - I hope it will enable us to become a less exploitative country. The problem is we continue to be governed by utter morons, just like we have for the last 100 years. Successive governments have chip chip chipped away at everything that made us a success and what we have left is nothing. No industry, no sense of self, no social cohesion, and more importantly, no self-confidence. Literally adrift in the seas we used to command.
@easytoassemble54321 It's almost like having the Roman Empire replace all their people with goths and then suddenly realizing your empire isn't roman at all anymore.
It's three week wait time for an 8 minute appointment where you can talk about one thing. If you have two problems it's two appointments weeks apart.
Not where I live
The NHS dealt with my mum's serious heart condition recently, within 5 months of diagnosis, and surgery, they saved her life. Guess what? No bill at the end.
There are big issues with the NHS, but it's still massively preferable to the US system where profit is paramount, not the individual.
Medical debt is in a horrendous place, where many people avoid even seeing a doctor because of the fear of cost.
The NHS tried their best to kill my mum and at the end a consultant told her that she's alive in spite of the NHS not because of it.
@taz454 You've proven that the british elites and politicians lie to you about what healthcare means in the United States. In private medicine you select an insurance policy with a monthly premium that fits your lifestyle and preference and budget.....then that policy pays for whatever healthcare you actually need when you go to the hospital. You're never standing there in the emergency room opening your wallet to count out five dollar bills or something. And that monthly premium is considerably "LESS" than the amount of taxes you are paying for your NHS, even ignoring all the rest. Millions of people visiting a hospital every day in the United States are having their lives saved.....and there is "NEVER" any government controlled healthcare fraud scam that ever needs to take place for those lives to be saved. Stop being a socialist with ignorance and bigotry about what the "system" in the United States actually is, rather than what propaganda you swallowed.
My granda was told he had a water infection when his leg was about to snap off when he had vertebrae cancer. My mam had to fight to get a scan and get his blood tested because they refused to and said she was wrong. I’ve got multiple stories from family members and myself about how useless it is
Whatever! 🤷♂️☠️
@@eddielasowsky7777so why did she use them? I imagine because it was free?
Worse in Canada no option for private Dr, clinics or treatments = fewer Drs, higher wait times
depends on the province. in ontario there are doctors moving to private clinics
@@rebharath Which private clinics would those be? I am aware of private hernia clinics and a few diagnostic clinics.
They have triage in American hospitals, too. Sometimes there are resource limitations which can't be circumvented no matter how much money you spend. You might be willing to build more hospitals and train more doctors, but that doesn't happen overnight. And the U.S. has fewer doctors than Europe in general, because getting certified is nearly double here than in Europe. We spend more training doctors, we have fewer doctors, and we pay more for those doctors.
The British have a seat at the security council table because we have Nuclear weapons. Also, the British soft power is still extensive. These self-hating Western liberals are tiresome.
I’m English but I’m not addicted to copium. The UK has a seat on the security council because it was on the winning side during ww2. Nothing to do with Nuclear Weapons.
Britain's influence is non existent. Fuck the UK.
With your logic Pakistan would be on the security council…
Whether you wanna accept it britain has nuclear power and won ww2 thats the only reason they have a seat not because of pure power like china usa and russia
The UK has a seat on the Security Council because the Council was set up that way in 1945. It's a relic of the political order at the end of World War II. The UK did not have its own nuclear weapons until the early 1950s. France also has a permanent seat on the Council for the very same reasons, and France didn't have nuclear weapons until 1960.
Why does this bloke have his hat on backwards?
What's wrong with that? Too American for you?
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I was thinking he seems like an intelligent fellow but dresses like a teenager.
We punched above our weight due to the Industrial Revolution, which brings me to the greatest minds. Those at the top for decades including media have told us to be ashamed of who we are ( I’m not) led women to believe falsely they can have it all, told men your too masculine and instead of encouraging our young in the main to strive for the best they can be have filled their heads with useless rhetoric and told the young they need worthless university degrees a chimp could pass and are as much use as a chocolate teapot. Instead of encouraging industry across the board they have destroyed it. Result we have hardly any home grown trades people, industries or many people with the drive to excel. You are being harsh to a great extent, our contribution to the world of science, technology, the arts etc is prepositional to the size of our country, whereas I grant you before it outstripped every country no matter how big that country was.
"Proportionate."
Most people in the uk now like the general practitioner because we can’t see the GP
Does GP not stand for general practitioner in the UK? I'm not being sparky, I'm actually curious. Thanks
@@densealloy Correct. GP is general practitioner, though sometimes it is called family doctor. The GP is your first point of contact with the NHS.
Not.weong either I've been lucky enough to not need the GP as have my family but if and when any of us do its a long wait and rigmarole to get seen you turn up and there is hardly an English speaking person in there it is a fucking joke. Easy to fix as well.
The Public Spending List neglected to mention the category of graft! 😂 It’s truly amazing how wealthy many politicians become in their role in such a short time!
Once you introduce a paid service in the UK it will open the door to full privatisation like in the US. Thus the government should cut defence spending and spend in basic health
The amount of scientific papers that come out of the UK every year compared to the rest of the world population is immense. The UK has declined in many ways but not in the ways either of you are talking about. Life expectancy in the UK is way higher than the US, there is your NHS dividend.
Defence is not insurance. Lloyds of London isn't going to send a hit team after the guys who keyed your Aston-Martin. Bitter experience and millennia of history has shown that buying off your enemies is not a sustainable strategy to protect your people.
Britain joining the Common Market during the 1970s was one thing. The European Union was a disaster in the making! But let us go back a little further, the Commonwealth! Okay, left overs from the Empire, but a Commonwealth could have been something. Apart from successive failing British governments royally mucking it up all the time! (Ie, that time an Australian Prime Minister was............asked to leave his job? Anyone remember that? A Commonwealth cock up!)
The commonwealth was too diverse to become something most of the commonwealth countries wanted complete separation from British influence such as India and many countries in Africa not all of them obviously Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Malta wanted to keep a close relationship with the uk and we could’ve formed a close economic union with those countries or we could’ve joined nafta with the USA
Nonsense. The Commonwealth was too big, too diverse and unwieldly to ever become 'something'. Empires only work because there is a clear centre of command which everybody obeys, and with the threat of military retaliation if the subordinates step out of line.
Britian lost it decades ago....now they are waking up.... sorry guys...its too late....now its a question of "managed decline"
It's simple economics. The land of Ricardo and Marshall, and the NHS.
America is retreating, the post WWII Order is ending, and we left the EU. It’s not all us, it’s part that America isn’t looking outward as much.
If only the UK had really left the EU! Globalists from the WEF have put the breaks on that.
The title has very little to do with the actual content of the video.
Britain got found out to be just a little island and countries started to push back against uk influence
Somewhat. But mainly it imploded from within. The class system ensured its self destruction.
Marijuana increases calculus formation
If Bates and Gazos wanted virtuous optics, they could throw some of their pedigree chum at the nhs.
2:40 this is what americans don't understand about scandinavian or swiss "social democracy"..... the reason why those social programs work there isn't because of how they're setup by the system...... it's because they have non-corrupt politicians in charge of that system..... we have the same "social medicare" in slovakia and it's a complete nightmare..... WISH I waited for a specialist appointment for 3 weeks :D we have specialists, where you have to wait for 3-6 MONTHS :D:D and how's that possible when we have the same system as switzerland, belgium or sweden ????? american politicians are unbelievably corrupt..... so, socialized medicare would look much more like eastern european one, rather than western one :D pretty sure of it
Shut the door
America
1.8 trillion per year on Medicare/medicaid (health insurance…remember insurance dues not equal healthcare)
Nearly 1 trillion in debt interest
Nearly 1 trillion on war department
And then another 1.4 trillion for social security
All told Uncle Sam is spending 7 trillion on 5 trillion in revenue…it’s ducking unreal
Its almost a bit trite to talk about wait times for Dr's . Where the NHS fails is elective surgery and ED bed capability.
Now 100% there are far too many people in red tape positions in the NHS (i work in the NHS) so it needs reform.
No where is perfection but what people think about the UK is probably excessively hard on herself. That said MM isn't wrong about London its a dump, best city in the UK is York.
I dont completely agree. The U.S. Is an 800 pound gorilla is all. Good and bad. Outside of the U.S. The UK is by far the most influential culture for Americans. Id say Japan next. I lump Australia into the UK bucket as well.
Britain is in decline. No, it’s not. Our influence is major all round the world because we are respected for our knowledge, and wisdom, tolerance and understanding that’s why London is the most important city in the world with 40% of the people are foreign born. That is no accident? 🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧
The Uk is the greatest nation on earth by a long way. Our legal and civil structures are copied everywhere. Even countries that tried to improve our systems worsened them as they did not understand the brilliance
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@@Astuga first they ignore you then they laugh - eventually they accept the truth
*used to be the greatest nation on earth.
Speaking as an Englishman, it is obvious that the days of the UK as a great world power is behind us.
@@Nomadicmillennial92 all these people are speaking English using shallow copies of our legal and political systems. Their ideas and discoveries and all based on our work. We are a tiny island off north west Europe but came in top 4 -8 consistently in the Olympics. Our military is in the top 5. Overall we are the greatest by a long way. Stand up straight English man, if you are worthy of that name
"The problem with Britain is, it's full of Brits."
~Every PM since Blair
He's so malign
Know why Winston Churchill left politics? Socialism. He literally said we just fought a war against them and you want it here?
Yes, socialism has infiltrated the West and is bringing about its demise. In a a few decades we’ll all be speaking Mandarin 😩
AND $0 ON DENTAL 😂😅
We are 4th in the World on Dental Hygiene, USA 8th.
Meanwhile bariatric surgery in the USA is worth $2 billion a year.