When you hear someone praise the virtues of the UK who isn't even from here it really makes you appreciate how lucky we are to live in this country and may I add we are lucky to have people like this man here. (Edit) Thank you Dillon.
No it doesn't. Btw, no such thing as free healthcare, although there are plenty of 'visitors' taking advantage of what wasn't intended for them. There are British people, that is the (white) English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish who have been paying into the NHS for years who can no longer even get an appointment with a GP and are certainly experiencing a wholly diminished service. The NHS is now about foreigners treating foreigners. This is just someone's statement of their perceived entitlement.
@@judithcressey1682 I'm sure you could go private if it's so important to you to be treated by a white British person. You probably won't and one day it will probably be a "foreigner" who treats you when you are ill or maybe even saves you or a loved ones life, see how much you care what colour or nationality they are then.
The dairy animals in the UK are grass fed and the chickens are free range, the UK also has very heavy restrictions on growth hormones and pesticides included in animal feeds. Most people talk about the rain but that's exactly why the UK is so green.
Thankyou Dillon for your views on the UK .It takes somebody from outside the UK to point out what we take for granted .10 yrs here &. I think you have got how things really are living here .Hope you stay longer & apply for dual nationality .😊
Thank you George, would you mind me asking around how old you are? I just want to learn about your experiences here too :) Most important thing I say to people that come to this country is to try to integrate and make British friends, it's a beautiful thing. I am honored to know so many people from here that I can call friends.
One of my favourites is the geology of the UK. It varies from the Cretaceous Chalk you are walking across in this video to the red Triassic sandstones and purple Devonian rocks of Devon to the Cambrian mountains of Wales. Best seen along the coast. No part of the coast is the same.
Yes I think it's really beautiful. Very interesting for people to hear that the UK is +80% green. What are some of your recommendations on where I should go around London and the south for sightseeing?
Thank you Dillon! Other things that are great about the UK are free admission to public museums and art galleries. The National Trust and English Heritage - 6 million members between them - membership subscriptions used to help preserve our national historical infrastructure. The Art Fund - subscriptions used to help purchase art of all kinds for UK museums - from the smallest local museums to big London collections like the National Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum. And volunteering - so many people give their free time to hundreds of thousands of organisations and do things like litter picking to help the countryside stay beautiful. A minority of people are thoughtless and disrespectful. The vast majority of people try and do good.
Thank you very much Sir. And coming from you is a compliment. I learned something new about the National Trust and English Heritage and the museums, Is this the reason why they are all free? That's how I also live - I think that majority of people are good people. It has helped me so much to integrate into the culture and build amazing relationships here. A sunday roast is something I cant go without too, but that's another topic!
@@DillonTimoff Most of the larger ones are free - they sometimes ask for voluntary donations. The Ashmolean in Oxford asks for a voluntary donation. Some of the smaller museums and galleries do charge. If you join the Art Fund you get a membership card giving free or reduced price entry. You also get a regular magazine, an annual guide to all the museums and galleries in the UK and a yearly magazine that shows how the subscription income has been spent - the art that has been purchased and the museums and galleries that it has been donated to. I hate seeing paintings being damaged by environmental campaigners. Very many of them were bought by the general public, each donating modest amounts. Damaging paintings amounts to damaging the memory of all those who contributed towards the purchase of art for the benefit of future generations.
Very nice video. I was surprised by number 10, but on reflection I think you're right. I can sort out my car tax, or order a new driver's license, check my tax status, check my pension (I'm that kind of age), find out information on housing, planning, voting, flying abroad, vaccinations, etc etc, and its all really easy to access and use.
the number 10 is the best thing out of all! I honestly have not seen any government website that makes it so easy for you to manage everything you want. Even for the kids in schools. An ex girlfriend of mine was from London and studied in the South West, she told me that as kids, the schools used to refer her to the Gov.uk website for summary of books/articles and important information. Very interesting. The gov.uk website also has this cool graph that shows you where your taxes are going - I find this fascinating.
My bill for a ONE NIGHT stay in “The Heart of Florida” hospital in Kissimmee/Davenport for “observation” cost me $36,600 (THIRTY SIX THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS) even a pulled pork sandwich was $47, I even had to go and ask for something to eat after 7 hours, a box of tissues $15 which I did not use but because it was “available” it was chargeable. DONT EVER COMPLAIN ABOUT OUR WONDERFUL N.H.S.
The NHS is a joke. Sure, America is even worse. but many countries such as Thailand, Brazil, Malaysia and others have good healthcare at affordable rates. I had a knee replacement in Malaysia, cost me 25,000 ringgit, about 5k USD. The exact same implant in the US would have cost 40-60k USD. Yeah the UK is 'free' but I'd have been waiting literally years, unable to walk, and then probably got an infection during the op, not to mention being treated like crap.
I get you completely. I like the US culture too and the US as a country, but the hospitals are so expensive. I once went for blood count in Texas, they wanted to charge me 980 dollars for it. I get you!
ha thank you this is such a compliment, I was out of breath I have to be honest haha! But managed to talk while walking. You are so kind, wishing you the best too and thank you for commenting, I really like how we all connect here.
Who told him it is Free I have been paying for it since 1965 when I left school it has been abused for decades diversity has killed our country. It is a change to see someone who fully appreciates what we have people like him are always welcome.
It's all about integration and respect in the end of the day :) It's very easy for people who move here to appreciate the country, but some dont. Thank you, I am glad you are welcoming me here, really appreciate it!
The story of public houses is pretty straightforward. Before there was a clean water supply, one of the easiest ways of making water safe was to make beer - which obviously involves boiling it. Most streets had somebody that was known for their beer - they became the "public house" where people would go to drink - and those that were good at making beer became "breweries" - it happened over time - with those serving beer and those making beer specialising. There's a whole other story about the initial taxation of beer giving rise to the spirits industry - and the eventual first and only reading of "the riot act" in London :)
My family name originates from the 1st inns, I wish I could explain more and give my last name but unfortunately this is the Internet so it would be irresponsible.
Thank you, I was questioning myself a little bit if I knew the exact origin, but to this day I find it amusing. I wanted to ask you one question Jon. Why is that the pubs have British people working behind the bar. I think it's really cool that this tradition has stayed as is? I find this great because anywhere you go to a pub, you can always chat with the person behind the bar. In any other work places, you always see a mixture of people
My parents used to run a pub. The last pub they ran was actually started by a widow with several children to feed, so she started brewing and serving ginger beer in her front parlour
@@jjsmallpiece9234The Americans get confused when we say free as of course nothing in life is free. It is free at point of need and the really important thing that blows American socks off, is that noone in UK has gone bankrupt due to the cost of healthcare. Which is quite prevalence in US especially of people with dangerous diseases and long term health cares.
@@jjsmallpiece9234 Who wants the worry of bankruptcy at possibly the point of your lowest ebb healthwise? It does little for your recovery for at start and then you put on top of that the fact NHS costs less to run than the US version!
It was so beautiful, I didn't even notice but now that you say it, I listened to it again! Thank you, it was so nice hiking it, I need to go back. Lovely to hear from you!
It's a pleasure to have have found you. I'm worn out just watching you having knocked your bollocks off with some serious exercise, but thank you for the observations of the video. Robert, uk.
This is so kind of you. Ha thank you! I was also worn out but it helped me so much to feel good. It's a beautiful hike. I want to visit more places, but not sure where to start! If you have any recommendations Rob, I would love to visit.
@@DillonTimoff ...Ha! I'm just some old gay guy who stays in his small area of the East Midlands, so can't offer any recommendations. Nevertheless, I've watched some of your other videos (I do have, you know, just a little life outside of you-tube!) and enjoyed them, enough to subscribe and like and seriously wish you well. Robert, uk.
Your video, your comments are exceptional, thank you. Far, far better than almost all others. Well said, thank you, thank you. All possible success in all you do in the future.
Thank you Martyn, I truly appreciate this! You know...I just picked up the camera and didn't even rehearse it, all came from me and no scheduling or anything, just wanted to share a perspective and it's awesome people find it cool. Thanks again, all the best!
Health care is not free, we pay it through our taxes. There are so many people in the UK now it's hard to get a doctor's appointment normally a 3 week wait to see a GP. Many people are now attending the Accident and Emergency departments at their local hospital for minor issues, and sit in waiting room for 8 to 9 hours. NHS dentist don't really exist anymore normally a 5 year wait to get on to an NHS dentist books. Oral health is at an all time low especially in children.
Yes it's paid by tax, we can still rely on it when we need it. About oral health, mine was actually pretty bad in eastern europe, never had braces because they were too expensive and we couldn't afford them. In the UK, I have been looking at Invisalign now sicne I am ok to do it, but also looked at braces. They say that kids can have braces for free on the NHS. is that the case?
I'm afraid Dillon I'm back again. Now if you ever have the good fortune to go to the village of Uppingham in the County of Rutland, where the incomporable Stephen Fry went to school, and into the square you will find a pub called The Vaults. Now the interesting thing about The Vaults is that it was a "Free House" which means that it was not affiliated to a particular brewery so that it could choose the best beers from the local breweries. And that surely is a good thing. I was about 20 about the time and frankly the landlord was pretty much a good thing too! @@DillonTimoff
I really like the diversity in this country. I have worked with Poles, Lithuanians, Russians, Spanish and briefly someone from Ghana. I have met people from Turkey, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Latvia, Germany, Sweden, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Angola, Saudi Arabia and China. People are people - and mostly nice if you give them the chance. What's wrong with that? I've never understood xenophobia. And Romanians. How could I forget them? 😂
I am glad you had a good experience with people from different countries. On other hand I think it's all about how people who come here integrate. It's an integral part of immigration and it should be made mandatory for anyone coming to the UK because only then you start to appreciate everything. Thank you for your comment!
I live in the uk and our work has enrolled us all into a healthcare thing so we get some dental free and prescriptions and some other stuff, we pay for it then send them the receipt and they reimburse us.
Pleased you are enjoying your life here, Dillon . . . however, I would have preferred it if you had just sat and talked or stood to talk - as you had me feeling completely knackered just watching you! Of course, I'm not as young, or as fit as you any longer - not after a good four decades worth of heavy labouring - it does take it's toll on the body so much over time - and likely while watching this I felt quite exhausted . . . !!! Good luck to you in your future though . . .
Thank you for the kind words. I just logged in and seen your comment. I had to stop for a second to record this but had to go through all the 7 sisters haha!
I think it's just the dentist. I just got one in Battersea in London that's amazing and it's an NHS dentist. So efficient, they have 6-8 dentists there and there are always slots available, the reviews are 5 stars and there are more than 700 reviews - really the best I ever found!
n ice of you to point out the better things us brits me included just moan about the negatives which all country's have got enjoyed your walk along the cliff top
Thank you William, I really hope more people focus on the positives. I find that sometimes people like to complain, I prefer focusing on the good. It was a beatufiul walk. Have you ever been to Seven Sisters?
yes it's a thing I have seen, I think it's all about integration and respect to the country you moved to :) Everything will change with immigration if the people who move here really respect and appreciate the culture.
Healthcare in the UK is most certainly not "free" - it's paid for through taxation. Think of it as compulsory health insurance where those making a net positive economic contribution subsidise those making a net negative contribution. NHS dentists are hard to find and may use non-premium materials compared to doing it privately, and they do not offer a full range of treatments - most notably implants which are far superior to a bridge or dentures for missing teeth.
@@DillonTimoff Current NHS England budget is £165billion, divided among roughly 30million taxpayers in England that's £5,500 each. As a % of GDP I think it's comparable with large countries in continental Europe. "Always there when you need it" - well, probably true for life-threatening or potentially life changing acute incidents, less true for everything else. I think you need to compare outcomes with places life France and Germany - they are supposed to be better there, for similar levels of spend. They have insurance based model with state fundede safety net.
@@lucylane7397 Well countries like Germany and France are a better comparison with the UK. According to Statista website % of GDP spent on healthcare is USA 16.6%, Germany 12.7%, France 11.9%, UK 11.3%. You could argue the higher figure in the US is due to their more serious issues with obesity as compared to European countries.
ha another person from Sunderland! Yeah I spent a lot of time there, 5-6 years and decided to pack my bags and move to London. Yeah same thing, where are you living now?
He lived in Mackem land. How very dare he lol. Newcastle I could understand but Sunderland 😮. 😊. Joking aside, your videos are good, why did you stop with them months back.
So when I moved there first, I lived in Hendon - the rough part. Then I moved to the city centre, I forgot the neighbourhood but it was near the City Campus basically
@@DillonTimoff when i moved back from london, I started in Hendon Gray road, then to villette road where the shops are, i worked down hendon the industrial estate for 7 years, , great video by the way
Why are there so many people in the comment section saing the NHS isnt free, since we pay for it out of taxes? Saying the NHS is 'free' is just a shorthand way if saying it is free at the point of use. Literally no-one is claiming the NHS isn't funded. I don't understand why so many people are making this weird pedantic point. I don't think the word 'free' ever necessarily implies 'not paid for at any stage.'
@monkeymox people are pointing out that it’s not free because many of us and our parents/grandparents have been paying in for years for a service that is now no longer fit for purpose and a lot of the reason for that is because people from other countries come here and use it without paying a penny in. It’s a bitter pill when you are getting older and cannot access the healthcare you were promised before they opened the door to the third world.
@@gilly5094 well I agree it's no longer fit for purpose, but if you actually think the primary reason is that foreigners are using it, you are misinformed. The NHS isn't fit for purpose, because large parts of it have been sold off, meaning that taxpayer money is going into the pockets of private investors, instead of actually paying for healthcare. It has also been severely underfunded and mismanaged, and successive governments have failed to treat healthcare as a holistic issue. With the exception of emergency care, a person must be 'ordinarily resident' in the UK to access NHS services. Which in practice means the vast majority of non-nationals who use the NHS do in fact pay into it. Some studies suggest that the net contribution of the average immigrant might actually be higher than the net contribution of the average UK national (although this is hard to measure). The point is though that at the very least, there is no data to support the claim that immigrants are any more of a drain on the NHS than nationals, let alone that immigration is a major contributor to failures within the healthcare system more generally. My comment was rhetorical, because I did suspect that the number of people pointing out the NHS isn't free had something to do with the fact it is a foreign person who made the video. Not that it should matter, but in case you missed this part he has been in the UK for a while, and does work. Again, not that it should matter. The fact we treat healthcare as a human right is something we should be very proud of in this country. I'm a taxpayer, as my parents and grandparents are/were. And yes I am bitter about the state of the NHS, but I'm not so brainwashed to blame immigrants for its failure. They're a useful scapegoat for the real causes of the problems, and if you buy into that nonsense, you're only helping the system's decline.
@monkeymox I’m not misinformed. I used to work in the NHS. Yes, foreigners are supposed to pay for medical treatment here, but they rarely do. The NHS as an organisation is very left-wing. As for funding, our health service is funded as well as, or better than, most European health services. The internal contracts are a bad idea, but in fact the private tenders are often better value than in-house. That doesn’t mean I am in favour of privatisation. It’s just fact that the NHS is badly run and inefficient. They waste money on a lot of things because of this and because- as a public body - they ‘mark their own homework’. I’m afraid you’re badly wrong about the impact of immigration on the NHS. The numbers are a huge strain, but the NHS is now dealing with a range of conditions that were, largely, unheard of in this country around 40 years ago, such as TB and syphillis. Things like cousin marriages (approximately 50% of Pakistani families in Bradford alone) lead to congenital abnormalities and genetic conditions that require lifelong care. These are just a few things, but if you look at the numbers of people who have arrived recently and are in receipt of benefits, you will see that the impact on the NHS is immense. Most of these people will either work in the black economy, in low paid jobs or not at all. As Trump famously said about the US situation, “they’re not sending their best”. This is not about race or xenophobia, it’s about the right of British born people to protect our own culture and services. We have paid for services that are majorly depleted by immigration. It’s simple arithmetic. Our own elderly are particularly suffering because of this - only in The West would you find nations putting the health and welfare of outsiders before that of their own people who paid for it. You may continue to deny and virtue signal, but people have a threshold of tolerance. The British are very tolerant and generous, but our generosity has been taken advantage of and people are becoming angry. I would rather that we sorted this problem and took care of our own by putting very strict controls on immigration. If we don’t, the eventual outcome will be large-scale violence and strife. I would rather that didn’t happen.
@@gilly5094As I already pointed out, there is no data to support the view that immigrants take more out of the NHS than they put in, so literally anything you just said about financial burden is unsupported by the evidence. The NHS is mismanaged, and as a nation we are not healthy (which I why I criticise governments for not treating healthcare as a holistic issue). That plus privatisation is sufficient to explain its failures without bringing immigration into it. Regarding additional health costs caused by cultural practices, I would like to see data supporting that (and that those health costs are above and beyond those incurred by, for example, the average British diet). Please don't accuse me of 'virtue signalling'. That is just a thought-terminating-cliche used by people who don't want to engage with the moral argument. There're two groups to consider here - the first are immigrants who come here to study and work. As we all know, we need immigrants to come and work, since we have an aging population, and at the moment British people aren't choosing the kind of jobs those immigrants are doing. As these immigrants most obviously do contribute to the NHS, I'll move on from those. The second group (which is really quite small, in absolute terms) are immigrants who come seeking asylum. There are two - and only two - salient moral facts. One: people are morally and legally entitled to seek asylum in a third country, if they face persecution in their country of origin. Two: people are entitled to healthcare. Both of these moral facts relate to human rights. They are not contingent on any other factor, otherwise they wouldn't be human rights at all. No decent person, and no rational person, would wish to live in a world where these rights are not universally applied (since it isn't rational to live in a world where your own human rights might not be respected). So even if everything you're saying about the impact of immigration on the NHS is true - and I'd like to see your data to support that claim - it would not be relevant. We _have_ to take our fair share of asylum seekers (and we do only take 1% of the global migrant population), and we _have_ to provide them with healthcare. The simple fact is that we could properly fund and manage the NHS, and provide better healthcare for everyone in our country, regardless of their origin. We are the sixth richest country in the world. Our failure to properly redistribute that wealth is a result of a series of political choices. It is senseless to blame immigrants for those political failures, which are the real cause in the first place, even if they do exacerbate the problem to any degree. You are setting up a false dichotomy.
@monkeymox the NHS IS properly funded. Your assumptions are typical of left-leaning and -yes- virtue-signalling people. If it doesn’t yet affect you, you can afford luxury beliefs. I can provide statistics to prove that immigration is the number one cause of the NHS failing, but how tedious that I have to regurgitate facts and you STILL won’t believe me. For one example, in 2022 there were19,235 applications within the U.K. to study general medicine. Of those, 10,185 were turned down. Instead of training home-grown talent, the woke NHS prefers to import doctors. 45% of doctors recruited in 2023 came from overseas. This is scandalous. Also, statistics show that more overseas doctors within the NHS lie about their qualifications or get struck off. Not every country is a high-trust society. 25 years ago, our population was around 55 million. It is now closer to 70 million. This means that our population has increased mainly by immigration by around 25% in 25 years. The NHS and other services were built to cope with a population at levels of 25 years ago, with natural slow growth. Please do not try to tell me that a massive increase that is driven by migration from poor countries has had no effect. I don’t have more recent figures, but in 2016/17 there were an average of 2,000 GP registration applications from overseas immigrants (NHS figures) they probably stopped recording it now, as the ONS has stopped recording tax payments from immigrants/indigenous Brits. Suffice to say that as immigration has increased to around 700,000 a year net, it will be much higher now. This makes it harder to get an appointment and also has forced GPs to retire due to workload. Non EEU migrants had (2016/17) a net fiscal cost of 9billion to the U.K. (Migration Advisory Committee). It’s hard to find more recent figures because the exponential rise in migration from impoverished nations will have pushed these figures even higher and they don’t want us to know about it - for obvious reasons. The vast majority of those coming here are not refugees. They are economic migrants. The minority that are refugees pass through several safe countries to cherry-pick the U.K. because of our generous benefit system. This is not sustainable. We simply cannot keep handing out freebies to people who have no legitimate claim to be here. This is affecting not only the NHS, but also the price of accommodation. Supply and demand has led to massive hikes in rent and house prices. Regarding your claim that we have an ‘ageing population” and need migrants to replace workers (another popular lefty argument with no basis in truth). Have you not noticed that migrants also age and that they will require social care? Many also bring their older relatives here and they will not have contributed anything to taxes, but will need looking after. The more migrant workers come, the more pay will be pushed down. Employers have the pick of many and don’t need to increase pay or conditions. It’s a fallacy that Brits don’t want to do those jobs. It’s just that they can’t afford to do them on poverty wages. Increased migration will only make all these things worse and I fear that civil war lies ahead, as our politicians are disconnected to what the majority of people feel.
No such thing as free health care. Average person pays £2600 per year for NHS. Income tax rate is 40% over £46k in UK. Ambulances do not cost $5000 in USA, please research your data points.
Food in the US is 'easy'- it is very poor quality ingredients pumped with salt and sugar to make it attractive. After spending time there I came to the conclusion that a lot of food in the US (there are exceptions- family owned Mexican places for example) has the taste and texture of food from an 8 year old's birthday party.
haha thing is I really like american food too, if you ever make your way to Texas, check out the barbeque, best barbeque hands down! But the UK food is also good! The meat here is so pure and clean.
NHS treatment is NOT free. money is taken from your wages to pay National Insurance Contributions .you have already paid for the health service before you get treatment .it is not free .He is not getting free treatment all of us who work in the UK are paying for it .
The health service is far from being free, we British people are the most heavily taxed people in the civilised world, most of which goes into paying for the health service, yes we pay a LOT of tax to pay for the health service, and end up with the worst pension in the Western developed world, because we are paying it all into the health service, and find now that we cannot even get a GP appointment or a hospital appointment. I get far superior health treatments when im in Asia.
Please check your facts. We are not the most heavily taxed in the western world. Denmark, France, Scandinavia, Italy, Germany Greece Spain Norway to give examples are all more highly taxed than the uk. The uk is exactly average for the state pension compared to 30 western countries. 33% of the tax funds the healthcare system in the uk, approximately average for western countries.
that's it! I should make one video about Sunderland. I think I will be visiting for an event at the University in April, would be cool! Hope you are all good!
Context is everything and everything that we do learn about you is extraordinarily "woolly" . For perfectly understandable reasons we don't know about your real economic situation other than that you're on the "winning" economic side so to a large extent a lot of this video (but not all) is a lot of "hot air". Money can insulate you to quite a lot of the downsides of London and UK life but not all! We don't know anything about your work or how you earn your money but as an economic migrant your presence here is perhaps not surprisingly built upon that and once that foundation starts to wane, crumble or disappear I'm quite sure you will too! And who could blame you?
All that you say has relevance for me as a Brit with a heritage of only 3 generations. My maternal grandparents arived here at the end of the Queen Victoria's reign, my father was sent here by his father from Belgium at the age of 18, met my mother and I was born in Colwyn Bay, Nth Wales during the height of the Nazi blitz upon London and many pregenant ladies were evacuated to the perceived safety elsewhere. My wife is Mauritian Chinese and hence all my 5 daughters are of mixed race. Acceptance has been a part of our lives but there has to be a big caveat to all this positivity, namely an import of a a cult that does not accept all our diversity and by its very militant diktats has only one aim and that is of hegemony over all others......I shall leave it to you discern what I have said as this cult is creating an enmity and a prejudice that brooks no tolerance of others.
Hey thanks a lot for your comment. I think you have a point. I see that the US for example is more acceptable when it comes from people from different cultures, but when I look at all of Europe amd let's say compare to France, UK is way more acceptable, but the only thing to state is that, people who want to be accepted should also be accepting. Integrating to the culture was the biggest thing for me.
We are also very proud of our NHS, as UK citizens. It was founded in 1948. For free healthcare for all. And whilst nothing is free in life, this is paid for through what is called National insurance. Yes, it is a tax, but a reasonably moderate tax. That ensures that, apart from prescriptions, and some dental work, it is free at the point of service. If I need an ambulance, I am not charged. If I require life saving treatment or emegency services, I am not charged. A single penny (or dollar). Yes, you could see 'National Insurance ' as a socialist programme. But in the UK Socialism does not equate to Communism. It is National insurance, or a tax, that funds healthcare for the betterment of all, regardless of financial opportunity. Regardless of their ability to pay. Yes there are waiting lists, yes it can take time to get a Drs appointment. But there is no unnecessary financial burden on users at point of contact. No debating if you can afford the ambulance that takes you to emergency hospital treatment. Ambulances respond to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay. Because there is no Ambulance charge to the individual. And hospitals will treat people without asking if thery have adequate insurance to pay $629 for a band aid. We are lucky to have the National Health Service. And that is why we must fight to keep it.
National insurance does not fund the NHS. It’s paid for via our taxes, which are among the highest in the world. Fight to keep it? It’s not sustainable with current rates of migration. We are currently the International Health Service. You can’t have a welfare state and unlimited immigration.
I think it's all about integration. The people who move to the country should make the effort to meet with British people and build relationships. This is when you learn how great the people are here!
Everyone knows why British homes are small and cramped into the cities, and then theres lota of national parks and rural areas, is because there's werewolves in the hills 😂😉
You’re only saying Woke close you can’t think of another word! What you complaining about? Here is a guy telling us of all the things he likes about the UK…very positive bloke. What’s your issue?!
When you hear someone praise the virtues of the UK who isn't even from here it really makes you appreciate how lucky we are to live in this country and may I add we are lucky to have people like this man here.
(Edit) Thank you Dillon.
just the non passport americans that judge from there cheeto seats xD
UK s a shit hole atm
No it doesn't. Btw, no such thing as free healthcare, although there are plenty of 'visitors' taking advantage of what wasn't intended for them. There are British people, that is the (white) English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish who have been paying into the NHS for years who can no longer even get an appointment with a GP and are certainly experiencing a wholly diminished service. The NHS is now about foreigners treating foreigners. This is just someone's statement of their perceived entitlement.
@@judithcressey1682 I'm sure you could go private if it's so important to you to be treated by a white British person. You probably won't and one day it will probably be a "foreigner" who treats you when you are ill or maybe even saves you or a loved ones life, see how much you care what colour or nationality they are then.
@@judithcressey1682 That's not the fault of the patients, it's the fault of the berks you loons keep voting to run the country.
The dairy animals in the UK are grass fed and the chickens are free range, the UK also has very heavy restrictions on growth hormones and pesticides included in animal feeds. Most people talk about the rain but that's exactly why the UK is so green.
Our history,our music and the arts in general.
Second to none.
Thankyou Dillon for your views on the UK .It takes somebody from outside the UK to point out what we take for granted .10 yrs here &. I think you have got how things really are living here .Hope you stay longer & apply for dual nationality .😊
So lovely to hear someone enjoying my wonderful country
Thank you George, would you mind me asking around how old you are? I just want to learn about your experiences here too :) Most important thing I say to people that come to this country is to try to integrate and make British friends, it's a beautiful thing. I am honored to know so many people from here that I can call friends.
@@DillonTimoff hi 70 years young
One of my favourites is the geology of the UK. It varies from the Cretaceous Chalk you are walking across in this video to the red Triassic sandstones and purple Devonian rocks of Devon to the Cambrian mountains of Wales. Best seen along the coast. No part of the coast is the same.
No surprise that Geology as a science effectively started in the UK, with William Smith and James Hutton really laying the groundwork for the science.
Yes I think it's really beautiful. Very interesting for people to hear that the UK is +80% green. What are some of your recommendations on where I should go around London and the south for sightseeing?
@@DillonTimoff Big question- how long will you have and how much outside the city do you want to see?
Thank you Dillon!
Other things that are great about the UK are free admission to public museums and art galleries.
The National Trust and English Heritage - 6 million members between them - membership subscriptions used to help preserve our national historical infrastructure. The Art Fund - subscriptions used to help purchase art of all kinds for UK museums - from the smallest local museums to big London collections like the National Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum.
And volunteering - so many people give their free time to hundreds of thousands of organisations and do things like litter picking to help the countryside stay beautiful.
A minority of people are thoughtless and disrespectful. The vast majority of people try and do good.
Thank you very much Sir. And coming from you is a compliment. I learned something new about the National Trust and English Heritage and the museums, Is this the reason why they are all free? That's how I also live - I think that majority of people are good people. It has helped me so much to integrate into the culture and build amazing relationships here. A sunday roast is something I cant go without too, but that's another topic!
@@DillonTimoff Most of the larger ones are free - they sometimes ask for voluntary donations. The Ashmolean in Oxford asks for a voluntary donation. Some of the smaller museums and galleries do charge. If you join the Art Fund you get a membership card giving free or reduced price entry. You also get a regular magazine, an annual guide to all the museums and galleries in the UK and a yearly magazine that shows how the subscription income has been spent - the art that has been purchased and the museums and galleries that it has been donated to.
I hate seeing paintings being damaged by environmental campaigners. Very many of them were bought by the general public, each donating modest amounts. Damaging paintings amounts to damaging the memory of all those who contributed towards the purchase of art for the benefit of future generations.
Very nice video. I was surprised by number 10, but on reflection I think you're right. I can sort out my car tax, or order a new driver's license, check my tax status, check my pension (I'm that kind of age), find out information on housing, planning, voting, flying abroad, vaccinations, etc etc, and its all really easy to access and use.
A really interesting insight! Like you, I took a moment to consider this and he may be right - I have lived in US and UAE, and our set up is better.
the number 10 is the best thing out of all! I honestly have not seen any government website that makes it so easy for you to manage everything you want. Even for the kids in schools. An ex girlfriend of mine was from London and studied in the South West, she told me that as kids, the schools used to refer her to the Gov.uk website for summary of books/articles and important information. Very interesting. The gov.uk website also has this cool graph that shows you where your taxes are going - I find this fascinating.
Same here, I lived in the US and Eastern Europe, nothing beats the gov.uk website, not even the Canadian one.@@AM-dz2sh
Lovely hearing the skylarks.
It was beautiful walking there, I want to go back when the weather gets better. Today was ok, but the weather is looking rainy in the next few days!
My bill for a ONE NIGHT stay in “The Heart of Florida” hospital in Kissimmee/Davenport for “observation” cost me $36,600 (THIRTY SIX THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS) even a pulled pork sandwich was $47, I even had to go and ask for something to eat after 7 hours, a box of tissues $15 which I did not use but because it was “available” it was chargeable.
DONT EVER COMPLAIN ABOUT OUR WONDERFUL N.H.S.
I saw that skin on skin contact with your baby , post cesarean costs $40 …..😳
And they call it the land of the free ,free to die if you haven’t got any money that says everything about there society
The NHS is a joke. Sure, America is even worse. but many countries such as Thailand, Brazil, Malaysia and others have good healthcare at affordable rates. I had a knee replacement in Malaysia, cost me 25,000 ringgit, about 5k USD. The exact same implant in the US would have cost 40-60k USD. Yeah the UK is 'free' but I'd have been waiting literally years, unable to walk, and then probably got an infection during the op, not to mention being treated like crap.
I get you completely. I like the US culture too and the US as a country, but the hospitals are so expensive. I once went for blood count in Texas, they wanted to charge me 980 dollars for it. I get you!
The all American dream ! 😂.
I was just amazed at how fit you are - Talking coherently, whilst hiking! LOL Great video! Glad you are living a good life, and I wish you success :)
ha thank you this is such a compliment, I was out of breath I have to be honest haha! But managed to talk while walking. You are so kind, wishing you the best too and thank you for commenting, I really like how we all connect here.
Who told him it is Free I have been paying for it since 1965 when I left school it has been abused for decades diversity has killed our country.
It is a change to see someone who fully appreciates what we have people like him are always welcome.
Truth
It's all about integration and respect in the end of the day :) It's very easy for people who move here to appreciate the country, but some dont. Thank you, I am glad you are welcoming me here, really appreciate it!
Oh, shut up with that horseshit nationalism.
I'm so glad that you are happy here, 👍, Enjoy.
Thank you Barry, really appreciate it! Wishing you all the best!
You are more than WELCOME , please come back to ENGLAND , 👍❤
The story of public houses is pretty straightforward. Before there was a clean water supply, one of the easiest ways of making water safe was to make beer - which obviously involves boiling it. Most streets had somebody that was known for their beer - they became the "public house" where people would go to drink - and those that were good at making beer became "breweries" - it happened over time - with those serving beer and those making beer specialising. There's a whole other story about the initial taxation of beer giving rise to the spirits industry - and the eventual first and only reading of "the riot act" in London :)
There's another interesting story about how "IPA" came about - google it :)
My family name originates from the 1st inns, I wish I could explain more and give my last name but unfortunately this is the Internet so it would be irresponsible.
Thank you, I was questioning myself a little bit if I knew the exact origin, but to this day I find it amusing. I wanted to ask you one question Jon. Why is that the pubs have British people working behind the bar. I think it's really cool that this tradition has stayed as is? I find this great because anywhere you go to a pub, you can always chat with the person behind the bar. In any other work places, you always see a mixture of people
My parents used to run a pub. The last pub they ran was actually started by a widow with several children to feed, so she started brewing and serving ginger beer in her front parlour
We don't have free health care in the UK - its paid for out of your tax bill. Its much cheaper than the US system of healthcare
It's free from the point of contact and need, when you need it most.
@@2eleven48 True, but many Americans here on TH-cam seem to think the NHS is free from any charges whatsoever.
@@jjsmallpiece9234The Americans get confused when we say free as of course nothing in life is free. It is free at point of need and the really important thing that blows American socks off, is that noone in UK has gone bankrupt due to the cost of healthcare. Which is quite prevalence in US especially of people with dangerous diseases and long term health cares.
@@robharris8844U Correct. While the NHS is far from perfect its way better than the US system.
@@jjsmallpiece9234 Who wants the worry of bankruptcy at possibly the point of your lowest ebb healthwise? It does little for your recovery for at start and then you put on top of that the fact NHS costs less to run than the US version!
Lovely to hear the larks singing overhead. The scenery was nice too including Dillon.
It was so beautiful, I didn't even notice but now that you say it, I listened to it again! Thank you, it was so nice hiking it, I need to go back. Lovely to hear from you!
It's a pleasure to have have found you. I'm worn out just watching you having knocked your bollocks off with some serious exercise, but thank you for the observations of the video. Robert, uk.
This is so kind of you. Ha thank you! I was also worn out but it helped me so much to feel good. It's a beautiful hike. I want to visit more places, but not sure where to start! If you have any recommendations Rob, I would love to visit.
@@DillonTimoff ...Ha! I'm just some old gay guy who stays in his small area of the East Midlands, so can't offer any recommendations. Nevertheless, I've watched some of your other videos (I do have, you know, just a little life outside of you-tube!) and enjoyed them, enough to subscribe and like and seriously wish you well. Robert, uk.
Cornwall in summer is magical,and of course our beaches are among the best in Europe.
Thoroughly recommended.@@DillonTimoff
Your video, your comments are exceptional, thank you. Far, far better than almost all others. Well said, thank you, thank you. All possible success in all you do in the future.
Thank you Martyn, I truly appreciate this! You know...I just picked up the camera and didn't even rehearse it, all came from me and no scheduling or anything, just wanted to share a perspective and it's awesome people find it cool. Thanks again, all the best!
@@DillonTimoff I sincerely meant every word.
Health care is not free, we pay it through our taxes. There are so many people in the UK now it's hard to get a doctor's appointment normally a 3 week wait to see a GP. Many people are now attending the Accident and Emergency departments at their local hospital for minor issues, and sit in waiting room for 8 to 9 hours.
NHS dentist don't really exist anymore normally a 5 year wait to get on to an NHS dentist books. Oral health is at an all time low especially in children.
Yes it's paid by tax, we can still rely on it when we need it. About oral health, mine was actually pretty bad in eastern europe, never had braces because they were too expensive and we couldn't afford them. In the UK, I have been looking at Invisalign now sicne I am ok to do it, but also looked at braces. They say that kids can have braces for free on the NHS. is that the case?
Absolutely correct on the origins of the public house.
Thank you! Sometimes I question myself whether these things are correct but I am glad!
I'm afraid Dillon I'm back again. Now if you ever have the good fortune to go to the village of Uppingham in the County of Rutland, where the incomporable Stephen Fry went to school, and into the square you will find a pub called The Vaults. Now the interesting thing about The Vaults is that it was a "Free House" which means that it was not affiliated to a particular brewery so that it could choose the best beers from the local breweries. And that surely is a good thing. I was about 20 about the time and frankly the landlord was pretty much a good thing too! @@DillonTimoff
I really like the diversity in this country. I have worked with Poles, Lithuanians, Russians, Spanish and briefly someone from Ghana. I have met people from Turkey, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Latvia, Germany, Sweden, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Angola, Saudi Arabia and China. People are people - and mostly nice if you give them the chance. What's wrong with that? I've never understood xenophobia.
And Romanians. How could I forget them? 😂
I am glad you had a good experience with people from different countries. On other hand I think it's all about how people who come here integrate. It's an integral part of immigration and it should be made mandatory for anyone coming to the UK because only then you start to appreciate everything. Thank you for your comment!
Not one mention of English or British people. Diversity is our strength. 🫡
@@jamesjj5695 if this is about Britain, then British/English would normally be inferred by most people.
Then take a trip to Bradford.
@@cloverite Bradford is great. Fantastic curry houses. 😁
Bet you were heading for the Beachy Head pub 😅
Welcome to the UK! Glad you like it so much. It's such a compliment.
Thank you so much Stan, really appreciate it!
I live in the uk and our work has enrolled us all into a healthcare thing so we get some dental free and prescriptions and some other stuff, we pay for it then send them the receipt and they reimburse us.
Pleased you are enjoying your life here, Dillon . . . however, I would have preferred it if you had just sat and talked or stood to talk - as you had me feeling completely knackered just watching you! Of course, I'm not as young, or as fit as you any longer - not after a good four decades worth of heavy labouring - it does take it's toll on the body so much over time - and likely while watching this I felt quite exhausted . . . !!! Good luck to you in your future though . . .
Thank you for the kind words. I just logged in and seen your comment. I had to stop for a second to record this but had to go through all the 7 sisters haha!
An appointment with an NHS dentist almost immediately for a chipped tooth? How did you manage that?
Can't find a NHS Dentist anywhere these days in the UK 😱
I think it's just the dentist. I just got one in Battersea in London that's amazing and it's an NHS dentist. So efficient, they have 6-8 dentists there and there are always slots available, the reviews are 5 stars and there are more than 700 reviews - really the best I ever found!
n ice of you to point out the better things us brits me included just moan about the negatives which all country's have got enjoyed your walk along the cliff top
Thank you William, I really hope more people focus on the positives. I find that sometimes people like to complain, I prefer focusing on the good. It was a beatufiul walk. Have you ever been to Seven Sisters?
It amuses me when people say that the UK has no culture whilst criticising it in English :)
yes it's a thing I have seen, I think it's all about integration and respect to the country you moved to :) Everything will change with immigration if the people who move here really respect and appreciate the culture.
Are you all right love?
haha this is that Sunderland slang! You'alreet.
Healthcare in the UK is most certainly not "free" - it's paid for through taxation. Think of it as compulsory health insurance where those making a net positive economic contribution subsidise those making a net negative contribution. NHS dentists are hard to find and may use non-premium materials compared to doing it privately, and they do not offer a full range of treatments - most notably implants which are far superior to a bridge or dentures for missing teeth.
He knows that but it’s free when you use it
Yes that's true, I am not sure how much I paid for the NHS but it's definitely a lot through taxes, but you can always rely on it when you need it.
@@DillonTimoff Current NHS England budget is £165billion, divided among roughly 30million taxpayers in England that's £5,500 each. As a % of GDP I think it's comparable with large countries in continental Europe. "Always there when you need it" - well, probably true for life-threatening or potentially life changing acute incidents, less true for everything else. I think you need to compare outcomes with places life France and Germany - they are supposed to be better there, for similar levels of spend. They have insurance based model with state fundede safety net.
@@julianpenfold1638 it’s about half of what Americans pay in taxes for healthcare then they have to pay insurance and co pays prescriptions etc
@@lucylane7397 Well countries like Germany and France are a better comparison with the UK. According to Statista website % of GDP spent on healthcare is USA 16.6%, Germany 12.7%, France 11.9%, UK 11.3%. You could argue the higher figure in the US is due to their more serious issues with obesity as compared to European countries.
Its not free healthcare. Its free at the point of use. Its the reason we pay national insurance.
Sunderland 😮. Poor you. It’s ok. I’m from that part of the world. Originally. Couldn’t go back because of the weather.
ha another person from Sunderland! Yeah I spent a lot of time there, 5-6 years and decided to pack my bags and move to London. Yeah same thing, where are you living now?
He lived in Mackem land. How very dare he lol. Newcastle I could understand but Sunderland 😮. 😊. Joking aside, your videos are good, why did you stop with them months back.
I enjoyed your talk / walk. I live near Eastbourne. That is a great hike.
thank you so much, such a beautiful area. Do you know any cool hiking places around this area too?
We all love the culture of the Lock In.
I am curious, what is the culture of the Lock In? Haha need to get my knowledge up!
Ok more culture in a yoghart. A lock in is after closing time, normaly one lamp will be left on and you carry on drinking.@@DillonTimoff
what part of sunderland did you live. i lived fulwell north side thorney close south side
So when I moved there first, I lived in Hendon - the rough part. Then I moved to the city centre, I forgot the neighbourhood but it was near the City Campus basically
@@DillonTimoff when i moved back from london, I started in Hendon Gray road, then to villette road where the shops are, i worked down hendon the industrial estate for 7 years, , great video by the way
Why are there so many people in the comment section saing the NHS isnt free, since we pay for it out of taxes? Saying the NHS is 'free' is just a shorthand way if saying it is free at the point of use. Literally no-one is claiming the NHS isn't funded. I don't understand why so many people are making this weird pedantic point. I don't think the word 'free' ever necessarily implies 'not paid for at any stage.'
@monkeymox people are pointing out that it’s not free because many of us and our parents/grandparents have been paying in for years for a service that is now no longer fit for purpose and a lot of the reason for that is because people from other countries come here and use it without paying a penny in. It’s a bitter pill when you are getting older and cannot access the healthcare you were promised before they opened the door to the third world.
@@gilly5094 well I agree it's no longer fit for purpose, but if you actually think the primary reason is that foreigners are using it, you are misinformed. The NHS isn't fit for purpose, because large parts of it have been sold off, meaning that taxpayer money is going into the pockets of private investors, instead of actually paying for healthcare. It has also been severely underfunded and mismanaged, and successive governments have failed to treat healthcare as a holistic issue.
With the exception of emergency care, a person must be 'ordinarily resident' in the UK to access NHS services. Which in practice means the vast majority of non-nationals who use the NHS do in fact pay into it. Some studies suggest that the net contribution of the average immigrant might actually be higher than the net contribution of the average UK national (although this is hard to measure). The point is though that at the very least, there is no data to support the claim that immigrants are any more of a drain on the NHS than nationals, let alone that immigration is a major contributor to failures within the healthcare system more generally.
My comment was rhetorical, because I did suspect that the number of people pointing out the NHS isn't free had something to do with the fact it is a foreign person who made the video. Not that it should matter, but in case you missed this part he has been in the UK for a while, and does work. Again, not that it should matter. The fact we treat healthcare as a human right is something we should be very proud of in this country.
I'm a taxpayer, as my parents and grandparents are/were. And yes I am bitter about the state of the NHS, but I'm not so brainwashed to blame immigrants for its failure. They're a useful scapegoat for the real causes of the problems, and if you buy into that nonsense, you're only helping the system's decline.
@monkeymox I’m not misinformed. I used to work in the NHS.
Yes, foreigners are supposed to pay for medical treatment here, but they rarely do. The NHS as an organisation is very left-wing.
As for funding, our health service is funded as well as, or better than, most European health services. The internal contracts are a bad idea, but in fact the private tenders are often better value than in-house. That doesn’t mean I am in favour of privatisation. It’s just fact that the NHS is badly run and inefficient. They waste money on a lot of things because of this and because- as a public body - they ‘mark their own homework’.
I’m afraid you’re badly wrong about the impact of immigration on the NHS. The numbers are a huge strain, but the NHS is now dealing with a range of conditions that were, largely, unheard of in this country around 40 years ago, such as TB and syphillis.
Things like cousin marriages (approximately 50% of Pakistani families in Bradford alone) lead to congenital abnormalities and genetic conditions that require lifelong care.
These are just a few things, but if you look at the numbers of people who have arrived recently and are in receipt of benefits, you will see that the impact on the NHS is immense. Most of these people will either work in the black economy, in low paid jobs or not at all. As Trump famously said about the US situation, “they’re not sending their best”. This is not about race or xenophobia, it’s about the right of British born people to protect our own culture and services. We have paid for services that are majorly depleted by immigration. It’s simple arithmetic. Our own elderly are particularly suffering because of this - only in The West would you find nations putting the health and welfare of outsiders before that of their own people who paid for it.
You may continue to deny and virtue signal, but people have a threshold of tolerance. The British are very tolerant and generous, but our generosity has been taken advantage of and people are becoming angry. I would rather that we sorted this problem and took care of our own by putting very strict controls on immigration. If we don’t, the eventual outcome will be large-scale violence and strife. I would rather that didn’t happen.
@@gilly5094As I already pointed out, there is no data to support the view that immigrants take more out of the NHS than they put in, so literally anything you just said about financial burden is unsupported by the evidence. The NHS is mismanaged, and as a nation we are not healthy (which I why I criticise governments for not treating healthcare as a holistic issue). That plus privatisation is sufficient to explain its failures without bringing immigration into it.
Regarding additional health costs caused by cultural practices, I would like to see data supporting that (and that those health costs are above and beyond those incurred by, for example, the average British diet).
Please don't accuse me of 'virtue signalling'. That is just a thought-terminating-cliche used by people who don't want to engage with the moral argument.
There're two groups to consider here - the first are immigrants who come here to study and work. As we all know, we need immigrants to come and work, since we have an aging population, and at the moment British people aren't choosing the kind of jobs those immigrants are doing. As these immigrants most obviously do contribute to the NHS, I'll move on from those.
The second group (which is really quite small, in absolute terms) are immigrants who come seeking asylum. There are two - and only two - salient moral facts. One: people are morally and legally entitled to seek asylum in a third country, if they face persecution in their country of origin. Two: people are entitled to healthcare. Both of these moral facts relate to human rights. They are not contingent on any other factor, otherwise they wouldn't be human rights at all. No decent person, and no rational person, would wish to live in a world where these rights are not universally applied (since it isn't rational to live in a world where your own human rights might not be respected). So even if everything you're saying about the impact of immigration on the NHS is true - and I'd like to see your data to support that claim - it would not be relevant. We _have_ to take our fair share of asylum seekers (and we do only take 1% of the global migrant population), and we _have_ to provide them with healthcare.
The simple fact is that we could properly fund and manage the NHS, and provide better healthcare for everyone in our country, regardless of their origin. We are the sixth richest country in the world. Our failure to properly redistribute that wealth is a result of a series of political choices. It is senseless to blame immigrants for those political failures, which are the real cause in the first place, even if they do exacerbate the problem to any degree. You are setting up a false dichotomy.
@monkeymox the NHS IS properly funded. Your assumptions are typical of left-leaning and -yes- virtue-signalling people. If it doesn’t yet affect you, you can afford luxury beliefs.
I can provide statistics to prove that immigration is the number one cause of the NHS failing, but how tedious that I have to regurgitate facts and you STILL won’t believe me.
For one example, in 2022 there were19,235 applications within the U.K. to study general medicine. Of those, 10,185 were turned down. Instead of training home-grown talent, the woke NHS prefers to import doctors. 45% of doctors recruited in 2023 came from overseas. This is scandalous. Also, statistics show that more overseas doctors within the NHS lie about their qualifications or get struck off. Not every country is a high-trust society.
25 years ago, our population was around 55 million. It is now closer to 70 million. This means that our population has increased mainly by immigration by around 25% in 25 years. The NHS and other services were built to cope with a population at levels of 25 years ago, with natural slow growth. Please do not try to tell me that a massive increase that is driven by migration from poor countries has had no effect. I don’t have more recent figures, but in 2016/17 there were an average of 2,000 GP registration applications from overseas immigrants (NHS figures) they probably stopped recording it now, as the ONS has stopped recording tax payments from immigrants/indigenous Brits. Suffice to say that as immigration has increased to around 700,000 a year net, it will be much higher now. This makes it harder to get an appointment and also has forced GPs to retire due to workload.
Non EEU migrants had (2016/17) a net fiscal cost of 9billion to the U.K. (Migration Advisory Committee). It’s hard to find more recent figures because the exponential rise in migration from impoverished nations will have pushed these figures even higher and they don’t want us to know about it - for obvious reasons.
The vast majority of those coming here are not refugees. They are economic migrants. The minority that are refugees pass through several safe countries to cherry-pick the U.K. because of our generous benefit system.
This is not sustainable. We simply cannot keep handing out freebies to people who have no legitimate claim to be here. This is affecting not only the NHS, but also the price of accommodation. Supply and demand has led to massive hikes in rent and house prices.
Regarding your claim that we have an ‘ageing population” and need migrants to replace workers (another popular lefty argument with no basis in truth). Have you not noticed that migrants also age and that they will require social care? Many also bring their older relatives here and they will not have contributed anything to taxes, but will need looking after.
The more migrant workers come, the more pay will be pushed down. Employers have the pick of many and don’t need to increase pay or conditions. It’s a fallacy that Brits don’t want to do those jobs. It’s just that they can’t afford to do them on poverty wages. Increased migration will only make all these things worse and I fear that civil war lies ahead, as our politicians are disconnected to what the majority of people feel.
Brits are good at admin, they used to run an empire you know!
haha that was a good joke, I laughed! I used to work at a call centre for so long, I confirm they are good at Admin.
No such thing as free health care.
Average person pays £2600 per year for NHS.
Income tax rate is 40% over £46k in UK.
Ambulances do not cost $5000 in USA, please research your data points.
It's not free we pay national insurance for it
normally i only hear americans with no passports that say British food is bad. xD! so makes sense.
Food in the US is 'easy'- it is very poor quality ingredients pumped with salt and sugar to make it attractive. After spending time there I came to the conclusion that a lot of food in the US (there are exceptions- family owned Mexican places for example) has the taste and texture of food from an 8 year old's birthday party.
@@charlesunderwood6334Yank eat whipped sugar and lard and enjoy it!
haha thing is I really like american food too, if you ever make your way to Texas, check out the barbeque, best barbeque hands down! But the UK food is also good! The meat here is so pure and clean.
@@DillonTimoffi understand, texas bbq, but id take uk everyday food over american food :) but yes the texas BBQ would be amazing once a year
NHS treatment is NOT free. money is taken from your wages to pay National Insurance Contributions .you have already paid for the health service before you get treatment .it is not free .He is not getting free treatment all of us who work in the UK are paying for it .
It is free at the point of use. That is clearly what he means by 'free.' No one is claiming that the NHS is unfunded.
The health service is far from being free, we British people are the most heavily taxed people in the civilised world, most of which goes into paying for the health service, yes we pay a LOT of tax to pay for the health service, and end up with the worst pension in the Western developed world, because we are paying it all into the health service, and find now that we cannot even get a GP appointment or a hospital appointment. I get far superior health treatments when im in Asia.
Please check your facts. We are not the most heavily taxed in the western world. Denmark, France, Scandinavia, Italy, Germany Greece Spain Norway to give examples are all more highly taxed than the uk. The uk is exactly average for the state pension compared to 30 western countries. 33% of the tax funds the healthcare system in the uk, approximately average for western countries.
@@Frazpas everything I said is factually correct, the OECD confirm that the UK pension is the worst in the Western developed world
Uk Cheese 🧀 is very good unlike Polish cheese But Polish ham is very good with all the polish shops in the UK
the best let's face it! UK Cheese, UK eggs, UK Milk and most importantly, UK Chocolate! Big time!
Sunderland!!! An adopted mackem
that's it! I should make one video about Sunderland. I think I will be visiting for an event at the University in April, would be cool! Hope you are all good!
I went to Sunderland once.
It was closed for repairs.
Context is everything and everything that we do learn about you is extraordinarily "woolly" . For perfectly understandable reasons we don't know about your real economic situation other than that you're on the "winning" economic side so to a large extent a lot of this video (but not all) is a lot of "hot air". Money can insulate you to quite a lot of the downsides of London and UK life but not all! We don't know anything about your work or how you earn your money but as an economic migrant your presence here is perhaps not surprisingly built upon that and once that foundation starts to wane, crumble or disappear I'm quite sure you will too! And who could blame you?
All that you say has relevance for me as a Brit with a heritage of only 3 generations.
My maternal grandparents arived here at the end of the Queen Victoria's reign, my father was sent here by his father from Belgium at the age of 18, met my mother and I was born in Colwyn Bay, Nth Wales during the height of the Nazi blitz upon London and many pregenant ladies were evacuated to the perceived safety elsewhere.
My wife is Mauritian Chinese and hence all my 5 daughters are of mixed race.
Acceptance has been a part of our lives but there has to be a big caveat to all this positivity, namely an import of a a cult that does not accept all our diversity and by its very militant diktats has only one aim and that is of hegemony over all others......I shall leave it to you discern what I have said as this cult is creating an enmity and a prejudice that brooks no tolerance of others.
Hey thanks a lot for your comment. I think you have a point. I see that the US for example is more acceptable when it comes from people from different cultures, but when I look at all of Europe amd let's say compare to France, UK is way more acceptable, but the only thing to state is that, people who want to be accepted should also be accepting. Integrating to the culture was the biggest thing for me.
London is not real England, good video 👍 what
Part of East Europe are you from? provincel Britain is very different to
London
that's true, it's nice though too. Fortunate to have lived in other parts of the UK so I have seen both worlds :)
We are also very proud of our NHS, as UK citizens. It was founded in 1948. For free healthcare for all. And whilst nothing is free in life, this is paid for through what is called National insurance. Yes, it is a tax, but a reasonably moderate tax. That ensures that, apart from prescriptions, and some dental work, it is free at the point of service. If I need an ambulance, I am not charged. If I require life saving treatment or emegency services, I am not charged. A single penny (or dollar). Yes, you could see 'National Insurance ' as a socialist programme. But in the UK Socialism does not equate to Communism. It is National insurance, or a tax, that funds healthcare for the betterment of all, regardless of financial opportunity. Regardless of their ability to pay. Yes there are waiting lists, yes it can take time to get a Drs appointment. But there is no unnecessary financial burden on users at point of contact. No debating if you can afford the ambulance that takes you to emergency hospital treatment. Ambulances respond to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay. Because there is no Ambulance charge to the individual. And hospitals will treat people without asking if thery have adequate insurance to pay $629 for a band aid. We are lucky to have the National Health Service. And that is why we must fight to keep it.
National insurance does not fund the NHS. It’s paid for via our taxes, which are among the highest in the world.
Fight to keep it? It’s not sustainable with current rates of migration. We are currently the International Health Service. You can’t have a welfare state and unlimited immigration.
that's totally true, we still have it if we need it!
The health care may be free but it's not the best. In fact, youll probably get better care in a 3rd world country.
But when you hear most people we are a racist country.
But the racists do exist
Only idiots would say that Heather….we have a fair few of them!
I think it's all about integration. The people who move to the country should make the effort to meet with British people and build relationships. This is when you learn how great the people are here!
Fish and chips came from Belgium and holland via the jews who moved to the east end
so interesting. I am glad we managed to keep it going for this long!
Everyone knows why British homes are small and cramped into the cities, and then theres lota of national parks and rural areas, is because there's werewolves in the hills 😂😉
haha I havent heard this one! :D made me laugh
@DillonTimoff its because im from the 80es were there was some British werewolve movies lol
This is complete woke bollacks .
Explaln woke, that's right, you can't
@colincampbell4261 oh hello person of psychic abilities . What I am thinking about you right now ?
Bollocks*
I agree with him, the UK is the best country to live in. Travel around and you'll see, I wouldn't live anywhere else.
You’re only saying Woke close you can’t think of another word! What you complaining about? Here is a guy telling us of all the things he likes about the UK…very positive bloke. What’s your issue?!
It’s not FREE! The British taxpayer is paying for this every month out of our wage packet.