When a sizeable part of the population must decide to heat or eat, government has failed in its obligation to serve all of the people all of the time..
In my mind the definition of a great country is how it treats its people. The wealth gap in the UK as well as the States shows me how easy it is for countries to self destruct. I have worked and lived in 2 of the Nordic countries and they are great countries. If we want to avoid revolutions, then we have to share the wealth in a fairer way. History has shown us this, but we dont learn, because we have aloud greed to corrupt us.
Don't worry, Nordic countries are slowly following suit. It's not just a matter of sharing *wealth*. It's a matter of sharing all forms of power, including but not limited to political power and access to media platform.
100%. I think the sooner we realize that the only thing that leads to stable societies is compassion and understanding the sooner we can get off this cycle of growth and collapse. Any other way of being in community is unsustainable and increases distrust, animosity, and divisions over time until it blows up
It's not us - you're not going to find the wealthy who ask everyone else to penny pinch whilst they draw more and more obscene profits from an increasing failing public sector on this comments section. They don't care if you or me or all the other people here are deeply worried about this. They live in their own little universe, and they only come out of it to squeeze the rest of us.
Yes and yet we are constantly told that the UK is amongst the top 7 richest countries. I suspect all the riches have gone to the richest group in this country.
What’s more conservative than shutting down your economy due to a flu allegedly going around? Time for those who ignored science to suffer, economics is a science.
The trouble is the country has been run for the past 40+ years for corporations, big business, and the 1% and the yet they ask the people of modest means to make more sacrifices when they are already struggling to afford to eat or heat their homes and accuse them of holding the country to ransom for asking for modest pay rises especially when you consider how much CEO pay has gone up and how the richest have got some much wealthier enough is enough.
I will not say it was the only reason, but in the 80's I saw the madness of the direction the UK was taking, which for me. made moving abroad easy, although at the time, I spoke no German. Another reason is that the heavily overpaid management in the UK was then totally useless. Working abroad, but attending meetings in our UK branch did nothing to change my mind. UK management does not seem to have changed.
It is the corporate money that buys state propaganda, media censorship and the votes of the clueless, bottom feeding sheep, both rich and poor. A conspiracy of Idiots.
A member of my distant family who is 87, diabetic, fell and split his head open. Was told it would be 2 hours before an ambulance could get to him. So he was run to the hospital by one of the family. He then had to wait 14 HOURS!!! to be seen in A&E. 14 hours at the age of 87 with a split open head. Which they then everntually just glued up and sent him home. This is officially a failed state. I failed country. And its all thanks to the tories who england have voted in time and time again!!
@@LiveFromLondon2 Well theres been quite a few documented cases of this, so I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it as nonsense. The independent reported on a case where a 90 year old woman had to wait 40 hours for an ambulance and then she had to wait overnight outside the hospital inside it. Did you see that recording of the A&E department in Essex where the estimated wait time for treatment was 7 hours? Go check it out. The A&E department at Royal Bolton hospital had people waiting 40 hours for treatment. This is the reality now. I know it's not what anybody wants to hear, but it is the reality.
@@LiveFromLondon2 Okay, so the solution is to shout and scream at staff? If you can see them they're not high enough up the food chain to make a difference. I can understand the distress of a family member on hold, but sadly for all, need has always been the priority and with insufficient staff waits go up, resolve the origins of the issues. Why, without knowing the individual would You doubt the veracity of the story? Beginning of the year I was helping an old Friend out in the North of England, broke bones in My hand, again. Went to local A&E, 10 hours predicted wait! F.O! Fortunately We're both tradesmen and He's ex-military and I'd walked the road before. So went back to His, He splinted and taped, We drank. A few days later was at My Parents and was frogmarched to the local rural hospital, immediate X-ray, Doc was happy it was stable and nearly wet Himself laughing at the story, cast applied and home in less than 2 hours. Yeah, lucky it was a rural hospital, don't know what the wait would've been urban. But I still prefer NHS Scotland where it was treated.
@@LiveFromLondon2 I'm in the process of leaving the NHS because its in such a dire state. This is happening all over the country. I've sat personally with a patient waiting for over 12 hours. I can't believe that someone would suspect that this persons post wasnt true
If you look close enough, you will realise, we don't have a govt. All we have is a regime masquerading as govt, our top leaders are mostly millionaires installed by corporate powers ALL aligned to US policies, ALL serving only corporate powers NOT the ordinary people. The ordinary people are simply tax cows, just like those in the US.
Back to Victorian values including poverty, underpaying and over charging the poor and no regard for the people most needing help. Rees-Mogg is so happy!
Tory party, I remember them, I've been working in the naughty eu for a while but weren't they the ones who tried to sell unsaleable products to countries which produce vast quantities of the same products cheaper at home in a currency nobody uses while at the same time tried to reduce the peoples ability to buy goods and services by cutting wages in a recession with a massive cost of living crisis and record breaking inflation?
What do you mean close? We have already failed. I just wish the British people had the same response as the French. They really know how to protest while we just sit at home moaning and doing nothing.
I got my PhD and am now leaving the UK, I have a 3 year contract abroad. Honestly I don't see myself moving back after those 3 years, things look bleak, my dad is a second generation immigrant whose family moved to the UK seeking a better life, I'm doing the same now by leaving it.
@@kunfukai probably just racism. My family have always worked, paid our taxes and obeyed the law but because my dad looks brown therefore we make things worse...
"I'm insulated from this" Exactly the problem, a lot of people think like this. No one wants to admit they are vulnerable. I went to Tenerife last week does that mean I'm insulated too? Everyone thinks "I'm alright Jack" until it's too late, then you're just another "lazy scrounger" or someone to be "pitied" or "not very smart".
AS a 77 year old retired Englishman now living in the EU I can only agree wholeheartedly with you James. For the last 12 years I have watched from afar the UK self destruct, and it saddens me to to see. I am very angry that the last 12 years of Tory rule has caused so much hatred and destruction. There is no way that it can get better until there is a TOTAL change. Not only of government, but a sincere and honest appreciation of neighbouring countries. It seems to me, as in the article in Le Mond that the UK is indeed imploding. I see nothing similar anywhere within the EU even though we have similar economic problems to overcome.
Man no lie :( We watched horrified at the willful self-destruction of Britain all for Xenophobia and misinformation spewed into the information stream by Russia and duplicity by the Tories. Best Regards!
not all of us, the other countries that make up the uk have been trying to get rid of the tories for awhile now and yet its still what england votes for the uk gets incase anyone thinks it, that's not meant as anti-english as i'm not, i'm anti-tory, i hope the entire uk manages to get rid of the tories
I’m in Australia at the moment, guess what? Massive labour shortages, power bills through the roof, rail strikes, hospitals on their knees, no ambulances. Sound familiar? Meanwhile in Germany???
Well, I grew up in what the developed world is used to calling "developing country" and I can assure you, without a doubt that the UK is becoming an underdeveloped country. All signs are there, clear for everyone to see
The Tories followed nationalism, corruption and cronyism and people keep voting for them and voted for Brexit without doing some research before casting their vote so what do we expect? A failed state is our product. No one else to blame.
Unfortunately the right wing in general is better at marketing as they fool voters to 'look over there' and blame all those 'pesky foreign enemies' for our own failures. Make an enemy of imagined 'others' and you win power.
People like to think they’re “in on it”. That they know better and that they will profit. Rather than the truth that they’re shooting themselves in the face to benefit their “betters”.
Well spoken James! Absolutely spot on. I have for a long time now, been telling anyone who will listen that Britain is broken. More often than not I have been ridiculed but I know I was right. Britain is broken and I have a feeling that none of the current crop of politician's really have any clue as how to fix it. I have lived in France for 15 years and choke on my corn flakes when the Tories say that all the same problems exist in Europe. Yes, there are similarities......fuel power etc but the government has been quick to act, and I can tell categorically there are no shortages in sup
I now live in Sweden and I can see that the UK is collapsing. My family in the UK are too close to see it, but "failed state " is probably close to the truth.
When people work hard for a lifetime bit cab never afford a home to live and raise family. That is s failed state. When people work hard and can't afford to travel on trains. That is a failed state. When people work hard and can't afford food for their kids that is a failed state. We are here, have been for quite some time.
Yet people will risk their lives and spend thousands to get here illegally , once here they have none of the above problems ,inflation or energy prices mean nothing to them they will be fed ,housed and kept warm all free of charge
Also when a government can use proper taxation and raise revenues in a way that can support the population rather than just become funnelled to a select class of 10% to 1%
Simple, really; all this is the result of hubris and arrogant English exceptionalism. Every other European former imperial power soberly adjusted to their diminished status. Britain still keeps solemnly handing out medals commemorating membership of a long gone empire. This is a lesson in reality and I suspect it’ll take a generation to be learnt. In the meantime, it’d be an idea to put King Lear on the reading list at Eton.
Totally disaster. I have aways been happy and proud to live in the UK. Born in the village I still live in. But now I am ashamed of my country and what its become under the tory rule. I have never voted for them I was brought up in a Labour family. But I can never remember in all of my 64 years whoever's in the driving seat being this scared of what the future holds fo me for my 88 year old dad my children and my grandchildren. You are so right James. THE COUNTRY is Absolutely BROKEN.
I was in the Philippines recently, the supermarkets were full to the brim. My wife who hasn't visited her country in almost a decade, kept commenting about how the infrastructure had improved and everyone seemed to have more money. It's argued the Philippines is a third world country, if they have full super markets, what's Britain's ( the fifth largest economy in the world) excuse? Brexit and the Tories have been a disaster.
I know, right? That sentence re: the leaders of the NHS warning of "the risk of a humanitarian crisis linked to the impoverishment of the population." It just takes your breath away. As an indication of the state of affairs of the country and, of course, what that actually means for the poorer sectors of our society, those with no protection, who cannot afford to heat their homes or feed themselves or their children *already*, now the NHS (for god's sake!) issuing a warning like this. People getting sicker BECAUSE they are poor and cold and hungry. It's just astonishing. This is one of the richest countries in the world! We give huge subsidies (i.e. gifts, benefits) to arms manufacturers (sorry "the defence industry") and polluters (sorry "energy companies") and bankers but now we face "a humanitarian crisis" because people, vast numbers of people ARE POOR. This is the phrase you hear used to describe countries like Afghanistan and the Yemen. It's evil and criminal.
Exactly! Well said, Matt. There have been letters in my local newspapers over the last few of weeks from NHS spokespeople, warning of this, and also a warning of impending strike action by junior doctors due to the low pay and desperately long hours.
It's always been there, just the circumstances prevented these problems from being seen. But now it's inevitable to face the music as things are glaringly obvious.
@@deang5622 Research the firm I mentioned and get informed, not to mention the Russian oligarch sourced donations that funneled into Cancervative coffers.. I'll wait for your mea culpa.
The lack of urgency in the Tory Government speaks volumes. They are utterly lost and have no answer to what they have done. The country is in the state it is after 12 years of Tory political choices. They should be ashamed, but they have no shame.
Absolutely right. They are just marking time to a general election. 6 months after Labour win, they will be criticizing because everything is not 100% better.
Sorry I fear you're wrong the Tories know exactly what they're doing since Johnson and the Russian state has had control of your parliament they're doing exactly what they intended to do and as a Scot the sooner they succeed the happier I'll be.
Totally agree. I'm an Australian Anglophile (my mother was a Londoner and I lived there from 1962 - 1982). I have 3 children and three grandchildren living there. The collapse of a once Great Nation is sad to watch.
Poor people want be BE like the Tories, so they keep voting for them in the dream it might come true. So Labour have decided to do the same also hoping it works for them too
James as an American let me say I have great respect for you and your honesty and only wish we had someone like you here in our country which desperately needs a political and societal observer like you telling the truth to us.
Thom Hartmann does a three hour show every weekday and been in the game for almost 20 years publicly and has written over 20 books from a progressive point of view.
Oh, I'm very aware of Thom I've been watching him religiously since he first started and when he was on Air America. My comment about James is he's mostly on and I'm sure tv as well as radio and I'm sure has a more wide comparative viewership than over here because I'm certain the corporate interest in the UK is not nearly involved or pronounced over there what with their liable laws which means you can't so overtly engage in slander and outright lying on air or in other media like the press. Don't forget a Fox Affiliate in Florida managed to get a federal court to rule they had a 1st Amendment-protected right to lie on tv and thus had a lower court ruling overturn a finding in a lawsuit brought against them that they had wrongly fired some journalist who refused to lie on air. on behalf of a company that bought advertising over the affiliate. It concerned a milk company that bought ads on the station and I believe the company was using plastic containers that had some dangerous chemical on the plastic or something possibly added to the diet of the cows that posed a danger to the public. And it's my contention that the UK is part of the European tradition of activism for the rights most average people and labor are eager for it seems the influence of these new eras of Gilded Age perpetrators here in the US is clearly more advanced. Capitalism, to be honest, is as brutal as any ideology to come down the pike but kills one slowly by making life one miserable experience that lasts for many years rather than most violent tyrants have done. And while capitalism is about it they color it all within an atmosphere of legality. And frankly Thom is perhaps too civil. I like James's aggressiveness, I like the way he will ridicule callers who disagree and haven't really put any thought into what they are proposing. He eventually gets around to exposing them for what they are which is white supremacist Fascists. Far too many American talking heads have a financial interest in not exposing openly Fascistic points of view equating the left and the right as being just alternative political stances. But the right is clearly totalitarian and they refuse to admit it.
As an American it's stunning to hear how the UK's problems so closely mirror those of the U.S. right now. You had Boris Johnson/Brexit. We had Trump. Both disasters have left us reeling from the never-ending fallout. It's ALMOST comical how I can come here and listen for awhile, and almost forget I'm hearing about the UK's woes instead of my own country's. I suppose on the plus side it makes me feel a special kinship with my British brethren across the pond. Stay strong, my friends!
"close to becoming a failed state"?? I think that particular ship sailed long ago. When my mother was in a reflective mood in the last few years of her life she used to say "I wonder what you boys would be doing now if we hadn't left England". My answer would always be the same. I'd still move to Australia. In every respect she was a liberal but in spite of being dirt poor and working class she voted conservative - possibly because the grandparents who brought her up, voted conservative. I could never understand why until I started to listen to LBC and take more interest in the goings-on in the country of my birth. It was then I realised what I had always seen in my parents - but less so in my father. It was the same sort of peasant mentality that's manifest in the Russians. It's an almost toxic desire to be ruled by your "betters" even though your "betters" were no better than the worst of you. I suspect that the one thing in the very near future that will make the British take a close, and long hard look at where they are heading, is the demise of the current monarch. As Christopher Hitchens used to say "This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII." Maybe they will stop calling themselves Great Britain because "great" no longer applies. Maybe they will stop calling themselves United Kingdom because they were never united. It was just a term used by England to keep the other members of the union from wanting their own place in the world. As for the word "Kingdom", really, in the 21st century?? The British have to decide whether they want to be ruled or they want to govern because at the moment they just want to, as James says, tug the forelock, doff the hat and say sir or madam.
And now I wonder what might have been if my parents had taken assisted passage when I was a baby in the 60's... You are so correct in the term United Kingdom. We were annexed, not conquered, and only after a long struggle. The English are not known as The Old Enemy by the other three nations for no reason. The history is one of oppression and conflict, from Saxons to Normans, to Edward Longshanks and so on. Recently the Tories have assumed the task of keeping the lesser nations down on behalf of our present Monarchy, who are actually German, not British, and an anachronism we could do without. There has always been a lot of resentment, but the divide between the haves and the have nots can be shown on a map, and it's all concentrated in the South East, the further North or West you are, the less they care. And Brexit has taken us back decades, and may well result in the dissolution of the Union. However it happens, something has to change.
You are wrong great Britain was coined by Romans, nothing to do with Britain been my greatest empire of influencer in history. And UK was started by Scotland not England. King James. The kingdom of England was to join with wales war before. Please learn history of have you wokes redacted truth????
@@frankklein4872 British history goes back much further than the Romans. Who do you think built Stonehenge, or Skara Brae? The tin that made the Bronze Age possible was mined, refined and traded from Cornwall all over the rest of the then known world. The Cymru, Lloegrans and Albans were the earliest settlers we know of, Picts and Scots (from Ireland) later displaced and mixed with the early inhabitants of Scotland. Saxons, Jutes, Angles, Danes, Norse and so on also came and eventually settled mainly along the East and South coasts. But Wales, Scotland and Ireland have always had their own cultures and languages despite all efforts to ''Unify'' the country.
Johnson appears to have become a self-appointed president who only deals with state visits. Why deal with the mess that his indolence and vainglory permitted when he can be off in Kyiv playing at Churchill.
The fact that I can hear James ask this brings joy to my heart, I could clearly see where the policies espoused in 1983 would lead, my only surprise is it took until 2022 for us to arrive at our destination!
U.S inflation hit 7% in December, fastest pace since 1982 . Consumer prices in Germany rose by 3.1% in 2021 . France shows a 12 -months inflation rate of 3.4% the highest since September 2008.
American workers are experiencing unprecedented declines in their real incomes, which is why record numbers have been forced to work multiple jobs to make ends meet. When we talk about 9.1% inflation, the media acknowledged the true rate of inflation of about 18%?
It's going to break to the downside because of the macro economic conditions. It will not recover until the US inflation rate starts to come down. Right now, crypto derivatives trades are the only thing in my portfolio that is doing well and making me serious money.
the severity of the condition of our economic circumstances is beyond many peoples comprehension and many continue to deny its existence.People are working and there is little or nothing to show for it. everybody is basically working to sort out one bill or the other. no savings.
Nothing like fake inflation numbers. Let’s play a game. You list items we use in our daily lives that have only increased by 7%. I’ll list items that have increased by at least 20%. Who will list more items and win?
Sewage in rivers and beaches, 40 hour wait for ambulance with a 20 hour wait in a&e, current crime wave, current electricity crisis, homeless crisis, policing crisis, housing crisis, cost of living crisis. Yeah we're doing great :)
The UK seems completely rudderless. Folks in power have zero interest in helping those less fortunate. How people vote Tory will always leave me scratching my head.
UK has a zombie government, they are all on holiday just like Boris Johnson who has been on two holidays recently while the UK people are forced into destitution and using food banks.
We are now in a situation where nothing is getting done in this country because those in government are incapable of asking ‘why’ something is happening and identifying the root cause of problems. Take the NHS waiting time issue for example. A pragmatic approach would be to ask why there are high waiting times; because there are staffing issues. Then to ask why there are staffing issues; because we don’t have the skilled people to place in roles. Why don’t we have skilled people to place in roles? Because we have closed the door on freedom of movement for a huge pool of needed, skilled workers. The government cannot ask ‘why’ too many times because eventually the ultimate answer will put them in the firing line, so they just say “it’s broken, but nothing can be done”.
You are perceiving the wrong cause of the NHS problems. First the white British population has declined by 4,000,000 in the last 20 years whereas as non white British has increased by 13,000,000 in the same time. Immigration is causing our problems e.g. NHS waits, u affordable housing, congestion, loss of green belt and it is not the solution it is destroying England at lightning speed and immigrants just enjoy this country and exploit it for everything as we have a weak and emasculated state.
I think it may be already worse. I had a conversation with someone back in January about the state of things. I honestly think we are in the midst of societal collapse. Everywhere you look, things are broken. I've got to the point of living each day the best I can because looking at the future is terrifying. I don't think it's just Britain. There doesn't appear to be a bright future anywhere.
Mass immigration, globalisation and leftism are the causes. We were much happier in the 50s without so many material things but we had a stable unified culture, smaller population and people were a lot more self sufficient
I well remember the early 1980s under Thatcher's first term when inflation went up to 22% in 1980, unemployment reached 3 million (12.5% of the workforce) in 1982, and the 1981 riots in Brixton, Toxteth, Handsworth, Chapelton, and Moss Side, all of which were fuelled by racial inequality and inner city deprivation. Yet, I can't remember it being as bad or having the sense of hopelessness as it does now. And there wasn't the reliance on food banks as there is now, even at the height of all those troubles in the 1980s. That really got to me when I read that there were now 2,572 UK food banks, and growing, due to more British people falling into the poverty trap. Whatever happened to a "Home fit for Heroes" or that the NHS would be "safe in out hands"? The Encyclopedia Britannica defines a failed state as: "A failed state is composed of feeble and flawed institutions. Often, the executive barely functions, while the legislature, judiciary, bureaucracy, and armed forces have lost their capacity and professional independence. A failed state suffers from crumbling infrastructures, faltering utility supplies and educational and health facilities, and deteriorating basic human-development indicators, such as infant mortality and literacy rates. Failed states create an environment of flourishing corruption and negative growth rates, where honest economic activity cannot flourish." I believe that some of those points can be checked off for the UK as it stands today.
We are there. Even down to literacy rates, at my daughter's school, the 6th year students are being used to help first years, 12 year olds, learn to read. Basics like colours. It's shocking and heartbreaking and covid can only be blamed so much, we cannot accept the pandemic as any sort of excuse for the state of things.
There was never any possiblity Jeremy Corbyn was ever going to win a General Election. To change things for the better you have to get into power first.
@@peterebel7899 Moronic statement as usual Peter. You literally will not understand that people in the UK exist who vote and campaign to try to prevent what is happening now. Do you "take own responsibility" - I doubt it since you're obsessed with telling everyone else to do it.
Corbyn was the wrong leader at that time. He couldn't engage on Brexit, because he wanted to leave the EU but the demographics who supported him didn't. Ironically, if he was leader now, he'd have a much easier time of it
We should all thank the Tories for driving this country in to the dirt, while the rich quaff fizz and rub their hands at their gains. I'm eternally grateful to the richest of the rich making sure us not well off peasants return to the medieval days of rummaging in the gutters to eat. BRAVO BORIS!!
People in this country are more concerned with what's happening on Eastendes, what takeaway to order this evening from UberEats, what film to watch on Netflix, Love Island and Z list celebrities. The toffee nosed middle class retirees just shun their nose up hoping it will all just "go away" because their lives are ok. They have their houses and nest egg and don't want any trouble. As long as they can go to the supermarket every day, do some gardening and such they are fine. They have given up caring. This society is in deep decay.
I think you are spot on there ,that's my take on it also.the benefit class don't give a fig or have a clue about politics,the middle classes ,as you say bringing up middle class entitled children
I’ve spent 16+ hours in A&E when I’ve had to take my dad in with aspirational pneumonia. Not easy when he also has Alzheimer’s and doesn’t understand why he’s not being seen. I had to drive him in too as the wait for an ambulance was 10+ hours. It’s scary!! It feels like the NHS is being deliberately run down by the Government so people will beg to go private, and those that are elderly or disabled will die and not be a ‘drain’ on the benefit system anymore!😭
I'm from the US and a first-time listener. It was sad but refreshing to see someone speak candidly about the elephant in the room. Much of what you said can also be said about our country. We elected a crazy, corrupt man to run the country and he surrounded himself with self-serving scoundrels bent on demolishing what is left of the middle class. We are bigger so we haven't reached your level of desperation yet, but if the trajectory continues, we will inevitably get there.
>We elected a crazy, corrupt man to run the country and he surrounded himself with self-serving scoundrels bent on demolishing what is left of the middle class. Yes, Sleepy Joe.
This country has been a failed state for many years if I could afford to live abroad somewhere I would move away in a heartbeat, to much greed to much corruption & to much hate to name a few.
I came to England at the very start of 2019 seeking a life not filled with misery away from Greece. I fought hard to demand reasonable wages so as not to bring the wage of unskilled labour down to the level of Greece, and yet looking back at Greece, I can rent a house for 400 Euros and earn about 700 Euros a month. If I want to rent a house in Spalding, a small town, I need over 2k pounds a month and despite earning about 30% above minimum wage, that isn't enough to cover even that. Congrats people, you ruined this country so bad that I legit think I can go back to debt-ridden, desperate and crumbling Greece, and probably live a more luxurious life. How you did this I dunno, but you are impressive.
Well if Britain is that bad no one is forcing you to stay here. At least you have the luxury of returning Greece, most British people don’t have the opportunity you have..
You are looking at levels of poverty not seen since the 1930s with truss cutting wages in a recession with a cost of living crisis and record breaking inflation leading almost certainly to revolution because by cutting wages you remove the ability of people to keep the economy going buy buying things like food in a recession
It's great to be positive and excited by researching what new country to move to . Gives a challenge, engagement, even recognition, and much needed hope that yes we can be involved in building a better future!!!
Honestly, the UK makes me very sad at the moment, I returned to the UK 7 years ago and it's got measurably and significantly worse to live in over that time, and the breaks my heart. I'm now facing a situation where wethering the storm is the only thing I can do, and hoping that on the other side is something better, but I have little confidence in that.
@@tendrosstoodross2976 I am British, I just lived abroad for a number of years, but this is my home, But that's besides the point, you are basically saying it's a lost cause?
@@JottoHearthStone Its a lost cause for people like yourself. I take it you want the UK to bow and scrape and beg for readmission to the EU? That isnt going to happen. If you dont like the way the UK is post Brexit there is no point moaning about it, it is what it is.
@@tendrosstoodross2976 honestly, the UK would be better off in the EU but I know that's not going to happen, at this point I've accepted that until the next election things are just going to get worse 2024 is the last chance the UK has to turn things around before the damage it set in place for decades.
@@tendrosstoodross2976 “if you don’t like the way something is there’s no point moaning about it” My dude, that is not how progress works 😂 Nothing gets fixed in this world until someone moans about it. Every right we have in this country is because of people moaning somewhere along history.
When it gets to January and we have thousands freezing to death indoors and everyone else rooming around pillaging whatever is left in the shops you'll know what failure actually looks like. At least the overturned, burning cars might keep a few warm.
The root of the problem is a failed democratic system. The UK has an electoral system that is not democratic ie the make up of Parliament does not reflect the expressed will of the electorate when they voted. BJ increased the Tory share of the vote by a measly 1.5% at the last election which resulted in an unassailable 80 seat majority in the house! 1.5% is less than the margin of error in an opinion poll! In a first past the post electoral system your vote for one candidate is in effect a vote against all the others. 56% of the electorate voted against a Tory government but there they sit with a huge majority. Reform the electoral system and fairer government will follow. First past the post in a 2 party state works but not when it's multi party.
James.... Have been following u for 2 yrs.. Abd only now I must message u. I am 79 yrs of age.. & agree with all your policies.. Wish you were running the country but I know chances of that are similar to winning lottery.. Keep going you are such a loving ambassador for the working class don't care ur circumstances. ❤️🌹🏴
It doesn't help that there have been a number of things done over the years to make it easier for Tories to win elections, thanks to things like boundary changes. The Local Governments Act in the 70's was a massive case of redrawing the voting boundary's to favour one side far more than the other.
There are two things I am looking for that would be a sign of hope for the UK: 1). The vast majority of the people being absolutely disgusted with the Tories and NEVER voting for them again. 2). The vast majority of the people being absolutely disgusted with the right-wing media and NEVER again believing a word they say, and NEVER again buying one of those rags unfit even for toilet paper. Until those happen, the UK is going to have a bit of a rough time.
Can't happen, the newspapers get most their funding from facebook, the media is propagated through facebook I can't honestly say with percentages but it is increasing as the UK government turn the entire mainstream press into a facebook funded endeavor. This way they are secured even if they don't sell a single newspaper. They are also in effect owned by those who pay them the most and will most likely move towards their bidding to ensure payment continues. I think it is called the F word. But they claim it to be free market capitalism, along with their contracts for their mates who wasted all the money,
GB started being a “ Failed” state when it lost its foothold in the countries that were once hailed as the British Empire, yes one by one they took back what was theirs!! When you take the bottom bricks out of a wall one by one eventually the wall will tumble, and even more quickly when the Tories are helping themselves to those remaining bricks !!
Having lived through the 70s and 80s and the energy shocks and deindustrialization I feel the current situation isn't as challenging; but we are facing a worse future because, unlike then, the current government are such a bunch of third rate minds that know nothing but mindless dogma and are totally incapable of dealing with the situation.
66 years of age and I have never seen anything like this? Doctors hospital appointments do not exist, operations you either die or end up bed ridden or in a wheel chair and all blamed on the working poor, disabled and the dingie on the horizon to defect from the incompetence of the last 12 years!
I work in Nhs staff are leaving in droves, no replacement many leaving the profession the pressure is unreal. We’re to are struggling to pay rent, bills cost of food without pay rises and are then expected to go in to work and deal with an avalanche of patients problems we are literally drowning
took 11 hours for my son to be seen at A&E. He'd broken his arm and so was low priority. No fault on the staff of the hospital, but 1 doctor covering an entire children's ward, and was doing double shift in the main A&E.
Sorry to hear that, and hope your son is well and recovering after what is quite traumatic injury for a child. I'm so disgusted by the increasing neglect of our National Health Service by the Conservative Party, since they have been in power over then last ten years. Do not forget, "Bullingdon Club". Always remember "Bullingdon Club" as you see our nation fall further into corruption, despair, privatisation and instability. A small group of privellaged public school boys have literally shafted this country, and it's citizens, "For the Sport"
I had to go to A&E here in Madrid, Spain. I was seen in about 10 minutes and about 20 minutes later I was in bed hooked up to a drip and a heart monitor by a beautiful nurse! In the next hour or so, I was seen by about 6 specialists while being waited on hand and foot by a team of nurses. Just like Blighty, then. I hope your son is ok.
I mean ukrainians don't really know whats going on here. And they got other issues like a genocidal army trying to take over their entire country to worry about.
I moved to Australia nearly 6 years ago . It’s not perfect but seeing the decline of UK is incredible and sad . So glad we left As mentioned if the British people keep voting Tory you get what you vote for, it shocks me how working class people keep voting for them when they treat them with utter contempt
As a aussie I'm in shock that the UK has become a failed state faster than the USA mind you the UK could break Tory rule by voting independent or a Scottish independence and Irish unification
Oh, James, I feel your pain. Over here in the states, we are dealing with a bumbling narcissistic dolt who wanted to be king taking home papers of national security interests. And by the way, things are heating between the British Navy and the Russians. Can we all agree that conservatives simply cannot govern?
Was in A&E for a knee injury 10 days ago. Took 11 hours from entering to leaving. Took 4 hours for a doctor to initially see me, had the x-ray and then waiting 6 hours for the doctor to tell me what I already knew, I hadn't broken anything. On top of that, I wasn't given crutches until the end so I was totally immobile for those 11 hours. The doctor stated that she was the only one in A&E that night, and she'd seen 26 people before me. I've now been referred for an MRI, as it's probably ligament damage to my knee. I'm really hoping I won't need an operation, as I don't know when that would happen. It was bad enough when I injured by other knee 10 years ago - I waited 3 years and eventually the NHS paid for me to go to BUPA for the operation.
I was bitten by a Scalopendra, a very poisonous centipede, just before Easter. After four days the pain was unbearable, and because it is a nerve poison it can cause mental problems. I went to my local A&E, it was Easter Saturday. I was seen by a doctor within ten minutes, treated, given appropriate pills and a prescription for the chemist across the road. Also three sheets of A4 detailing the whole business. Within half an hour I was homeward bound on my scooter, vastly relieved. Total cost 10 euros. I live in Andalucia, I´m an English immigrant, a very grateful one.
I think the situation lies squarely on the way politics works in the UK. Essentially modern politicians have no need or wish to look further than the next election. Instead of a Statesman who looks forward to what can be done for the next generation. Politicians with few exceptions are basically not worth the money. The whole system needs re-inventing. Including the way tax is collected.
12 years of these idiots ruling us ! I started digging up my lovely garden today to plant potatoes, carrots and broccoli. I'm 69 worked since I was 15. I had to stop after an hour because my feet were killing me. I can't afford a decent pair of boots!
I moved into a new house earlier this year, and have started growing my own veg as well. Also in need of a decent pair of boots (Heel's more or less fully worn out after nearly 4 years wear) but can't get any help from Universal Credit for clothes as I've got to wait till October 2023 before I can apply for another loan from the DWP...
I can not use my local pub anymore because the landlord insists on providing the Telegraph and Daily Mail for his customers misinformation. The more I think about it, the more I feel disgust at their presence and influence and simply cannot bear to go in the place without wanting to bin the things.
Thank you James for the Le Monde editorial mention. I looked it up immediately but It seems to be necessary to subscribe to it. Only £2.49 a month which isn't a lot but may be beyond some people's budgets 'in the current economic situation' it's a pity.
Entitlement, inefficiency and misinformation has become the norm. Mentioned it on another post but the dangerous variant of Populism can often arise when the reality of one’s country is so different from their proud and patriotic perspective and it allows people like Boris to thrive. You can almost feel it, we’re all so strained that we take it out on each other. ‘Great’ Britain…
Johnson loves places where his ego is high , maybe him and his family would be better off living in Ukraine . Funny though he was for Brexit and Ukrainians want to be in the EU
Ukraine only like him because he gave them money and weapons, which is what any British PM would have done regardless of which side of the isle they come from. Even Corbyn would have done it, though I imagine he'd have spent far more effort trying to get all parties around a negotiating table too.
The problem of having a 2 party State . . . 47% of the electorate will always vote for Party "X". 47% will always vote for Party "Y". No if's. No but's. Every time. Long ago the politicians worked out that they didn't have to worry about the 47% who won't vote for them. Then along came Trump whose team worked out that not only don't you have to worry about those that won't vote for you but you can also ignore the 47% who will vote for you also. You only have to worry about the 6%. In the UK that's about 2 million votes. Until we start making every constituency in the Country a marginal seat nothing will change.
As soon as foodbank collection points appeared in practically every supermarket in the country, we were a failed state. My father, a traditional middle-class Tory voter, highlighted this point last time we spoke.
...no where near it..very disrespectful to genuine failed states if I may say so...you don't have to parrot everything James says to fill his show....😊..
10% of the NHS budget is wasted type diabetes 2 treatment,people whom can't be bothered to change their lifestyle,I know nurses whom are angered by these patients
General Strike and force the Governments hand to do something, we are all sat watching this happen and doing nothing. Our ancestors all had a responsibility to leave a decent country for the next generations, so do we.
My son is French and he keeps asking me if I want money and/or food parcels. Food is far cheaper in France. Energy is less now than it was 5 years ago. The Tories couldn't run a bath.
An analogy I used the other day about the cost of living crisis: we are on a plane which is in a nose dive which could lead to oblivion. Nobody is doing anything to avert disaster. Therefore, oblivion is inevitable.
Are you aware of Lord Giddens ? The famous sociologist who Blair borrowed from?? He was the chap who spoke about society as a runaway juggernaut, speeding up all the time, out of control, with no one at the wheel, just vested interests fighri g to get to the front, tugging at the wheel in desperation. Look him up, he is important in terms of understanding how sociology and academia can be *astardised by ideological binted ppl and used to undermine our way of life.
I am working overseas and my western colleagues show concerns about our situation and asking how my family and extended family members are coping. It is almost like should UNHCR should open it's operation to response to this crisis? Should rest of the worldcrsise fund to feed UK’s hungry children? Are we becoming like post war Afghanistan? Poverty and hunger everywhere. 😱😨😩
Can we hear from the Brexiteers at this moment in time from their point of view of all of this? I know people dont want to hear this but lets revisit and have a proper vote ob rejoining. We were all lied to. If the outcome is still overwhelmingly 'leave' then we know exactly where we stand with this country
I just completed the Govt. form about my views on a) either being totally Imperial on my purchased goods or b) have metric as a secondary, but in smaller print, to an Imperial wieght. The entire survey presumes that everyone under 45/50, will have to scrap their education and learn an ancient, illogical system that I, for one, stopped using by the late 1960s (I am 74). This is crazy, when quite strangely, we have been using both systems without compulsion since the 1970s. Only a handful of countries use Imperial so, industry is not printing all this labelling for them. The people who still use only Imperial will disappear in 10/20 years and industry will lose its customers. I think this driven by JR-M. More entertainment for the rest of the world.
Aw .. I want one! Then I’d take it to my once-remainer MP .. her name is RUTH EDWARDS and her constituency is Rushcliffe Notts. She is like Liz Truss a REMAINER turned ardent LEAVER.. I’m 73 so I do think feet/inches but my kids and grandkids are metric. Sheer idiocy. Costly idiocy.
@@darrylsimpson4744 You can fill it in online. It’s the worst written “poll” I’ve ever seen. You can write comments for all your answers so it worth filling it in.
No James I don’t get it either, if the Labour Party were responsible over the last 12 years with this outcome they would never be returned to power again.
When a sizeable part of the population must decide to heat or eat, government has failed in its obligation to serve all of the people all of the time..
more so over half the country.
Nobody has had to make that decision. Its still summer.
Sizeable 2% and these people couldn't manage before the fuel crisis.
@@davidty2006 really?
Haven't they offered the pensioners upto 1200 now and still going up . Get a grip .
In my mind the definition of a great country is how it treats its people. The wealth gap in the UK as well as the States shows me how easy it is for countries to self destruct. I have worked and lived in 2 of the Nordic countries and they are great countries. If we want to avoid revolutions, then we have to share the wealth in a fairer way. History has shown us this, but we dont learn, because we have aloud greed to corrupt us.
Don't worry, Nordic countries are slowly following suit.
It's not just a matter of sharing *wealth*.
It's a matter of sharing all forms of power, including but not limited to political power and access to media platform.
Greed hasn't corrupted me, all my money has been stolen by "my governmernment" bandits!
100%. I think the sooner we realize that the only thing that leads to stable societies is compassion and understanding the sooner we can get off this cycle of growth and collapse. Any other way of being in community is unsustainable and increases distrust, animosity, and divisions over time until it blows up
@@xarvh no not really?
It's not us - you're not going to find the wealthy who ask everyone else to penny pinch whilst they draw more and more obscene profits from an increasing failing public sector on this comments section. They don't care if you or me or all the other people here are deeply worried about this. They live in their own little universe, and they only come out of it to squeeze the rest of us.
Yes and yet we are constantly told that the UK is amongst the top 7 richest countries. I suspect all the riches have gone to the richest group in this country.
The problem with conservatism, is eventually you run out of other peoples livelihoods.
I'm stealing that. Brilliant.
What’s more conservative than shutting down your economy due to a flu allegedly going around? Time for those who ignored science to suffer, economics is a science.
I've been working on this recently. I came up with '- eventually you run out of the sweat on other people's brows'. Your version is a bit catchier.
Is it only conservatives who steal through taxation?
and the problem with socialism, is you eventually run out of other people money.
The trouble is the country has been run for the past 40+ years for corporations, big business, and the 1% and the yet they ask the people of modest means to make more sacrifices when they are already struggling to afford to eat or heat their homes and accuse them of holding the country to ransom for asking for modest pay rises especially when you consider how much CEO pay has gone up and how the richest have got some much wealthier enough is enough.
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The same with US,Thatcher and Raegan destroyed us
This bloke was one of people who spoke against Corbyn’s brand of democratic socialism. Now he’s moaning.
I will not say it was the only reason, but in the 80's I saw the madness of the direction the UK was taking, which for me. made moving abroad easy, although at the time, I spoke no German. Another reason is that the heavily overpaid management in the UK was then totally useless. Working abroad, but attending meetings in our UK branch did nothing to change my mind. UK management does not seem to have changed.
It is the corporate money that buys state propaganda, media censorship and the votes of the clueless, bottom feeding sheep, both rich and poor. A conspiracy of Idiots.
A member of my distant family who is 87, diabetic, fell and split his head open. Was told it would be 2 hours before an ambulance could get to him. So he was run to the hospital by one of the family. He then had to wait 14 HOURS!!! to be seen in A&E. 14 hours at the age of 87 with a split open head. Which they then everntually just glued up and sent him home. This is officially a failed state. I failed country. And its all thanks to the tories who england have voted in time and time again!!
If your story its true, and I suspect it isn't, then the behaviour of the people in A&E is what should be called out.
@@LiveFromLondon2 Well theres been quite a few documented cases of this, so I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it as nonsense. The independent reported on a case where a 90 year old woman had to wait 40 hours for an ambulance and then she had to wait overnight outside the hospital inside it.
Did you see that recording of the A&E department in Essex where the estimated wait time for treatment was 7 hours? Go check it out. The A&E department at Royal Bolton hospital had people waiting 40 hours for treatment.
This is the reality now. I know it's not what anybody wants to hear, but it is the reality.
@@LiveFromLondon2 Okay, so the solution is to shout and scream at staff? If you can see them they're not high enough up the food chain to make a difference. I can understand the distress of a family member on hold, but sadly for all, need has always been the priority and with insufficient staff waits go up, resolve the origins of the issues.
Why, without knowing the individual would You doubt the veracity of the story? Beginning of the year I was helping an old Friend out in the North of England, broke bones in My hand, again. Went to local A&E, 10 hours predicted wait! F.O! Fortunately We're both tradesmen and He's ex-military and I'd walked the road before. So went back to His, He splinted and taped, We drank. A few days later was at My Parents and was frogmarched to the local rural hospital, immediate X-ray, Doc was happy it was stable and nearly wet Himself laughing at the story, cast applied and home in less than 2 hours. Yeah, lucky it was a rural hospital, don't know what the wait would've been urban. But I still prefer NHS Scotland where it was treated.
@@LiveFromLondon2 I've had pretty much the same experience in the past month why isn't it true?
@@LiveFromLondon2 I'm in the process of leaving the NHS because its in such a dire state. This is happening all over the country. I've sat personally with a patient waiting for over 12 hours.
I can't believe that someone would suspect that this persons post wasnt true
I cannot put into words how much disdain I have for this government.
And people who vote for them
@@wreckless50 And people who have the stupidity or callousness to still defend them!
It’s heartbreaking really heart breaking.
If you look close enough, you will realise, we don't have a govt. All we have is a regime masquerading as govt, our top leaders are mostly millionaires installed by corporate powers ALL aligned to US policies, ALL serving only corporate powers NOT the ordinary people.
The ordinary people are simply tax cows, just like those in the US.
@@monipenny408 couldn't agree more. Disgusting.
Back to Victorian values including poverty, underpaying and over charging the poor and no regard for the people most needing help. Rees-Mogg is so happy!
You cannot understand how proud i was to be English in the 70s and 80s. Then the tory plan to sell everything began. And here we are.
And many proud English voted Conservatives in. Now it's time to bare consequences.
Tory party, I remember them, I've been working in the naughty eu for a while but weren't they the ones who tried to sell unsaleable products to countries which produce vast quantities of the same products cheaper at home in a currency nobody uses while at the same time tried to reduce the peoples ability to buy goods and services by cutting wages in a recession with a massive cost of living crisis and record breaking inflation?
I’ll never understand why anyone would be either proud or ashamed of their nationality. It’s almost completely irrelevant.
So you now realise that you there is nothing special about it
The rot started with Thatcher and 40+years of neoliberal plunder has destroyed the UK. The Tories are the human equivalent of termites.
What do you mean close? We have already failed. I just wish the British people had the same response as the French. They really know how to protest while we just sit at home moaning and doing nothing.
The irony is that certain sections of the English proletariat have the nerve to call the French a bunch of surrender monkeys.
the problem is the britain likely to rebel is the brexit lovers who hate anyone not like them so maybe it’s better without the riots
So you supported the yellow jackets? And you support the dingy divers looting Oxford street?
I got my PhD and am now leaving the UK, I have a 3 year contract abroad. Honestly I don't see myself moving back after those 3 years, things look bleak, my dad is a second generation immigrant whose family moved to the UK seeking a better life, I'm doing the same now by leaving it.
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@John Frazer can’t wait for your local pub to close and you turn to domestic violence
@John Frazer "made it a worse place for natives to live" - What are you basing this on?
@John Frazer people like you are what makes this country so unliveable.
@@kunfukai probably just racism. My family have always worked, paid our taxes and obeyed the law but because my dad looks brown therefore we make things worse...
"I'm insulated from this" Exactly the problem, a lot of people think like this. No one wants to admit they are vulnerable. I went to Tenerife last week does that mean I'm insulated too? Everyone thinks "I'm alright Jack" until it's too late, then you're just another "lazy scrounger" or someone to be "pitied" or "not very smart".
AS a 77 year old retired Englishman now living in the EU I can only agree wholeheartedly with you James. For the last 12 years I have watched from afar the UK self destruct, and it saddens me to to see. I am very angry that the last 12 years of Tory rule has caused so much hatred and destruction. There is no way that it can get better until there is a TOTAL change. Not only of government, but a sincere and honest appreciation of neighbouring countries. It seems to me, as in the article in Le Mond that the UK is indeed imploding. I see nothing similar anywhere within the EU even though we have similar economic problems to overcome.
Yeah I always found it strange that those who claim that our country can do great on a global stage are so isolationist. Seems very counter intuitive.
Look at the crazy left and social media. That will give you answers.
magyar Brit We share the same view ..No idea where you are within the EU. Been here 30years and would never return ...
@Rosy Well, you've got the right moniker, haven't you?
Man no lie :( We watched horrified at the willful self-destruction of Britain all for Xenophobia and misinformation spewed into the information stream by Russia and duplicity by the Tories. Best Regards!
the UK is broken, but the worse thing is that the people is in denial and deluded
No me...no, no,not me buddy
Absolutely- they along with o no brain think mass immigration has nothing to do with it .
Huffing the copium
Even more frightening is it's deliberate. Some people are glad this is happening.
Why, is not clear to me.
Perhaps we will one day know why.
not all of us, the other countries that make up the uk have been trying to get rid of the tories for awhile now and yet its still what england votes for the uk gets
incase anyone thinks it, that's not meant as anti-english as i'm not, i'm anti-tory, i hope the entire uk manages to get rid of the tories
a more truthful headline: "everything's broken, and we persuaded you to vote for the people who broke it"
I’m in Australia at the moment, guess what? Massive labour shortages, power bills through the roof, rail strikes, hospitals on their knees, no ambulances. Sound familiar? Meanwhile in Germany???
Well, I grew up in what the developed world is used to calling "developing country" and I can assure you, without a doubt that the UK is becoming an underdeveloped country. All signs are there, clear for everyone to see
whys that ? great reset by any chance ! are you ppl dumb?
Can’t defend our borders and let the 3rd world in of course we are
Fact you grew up is in contention.
@@paulgibbons2320 Really? Why? Because you say so?
@@paulgibbons2320 Utterly puerile response.
The Tories followed nationalism, corruption and cronyism and people keep voting for them and voted for Brexit without doing some research before casting their vote so what do we expect? A failed state is our product. No one else to blame.
Unfortunately the right wing in general is better at marketing as they fool voters to 'look over there' and blame all those 'pesky foreign enemies' for our own failures. Make an enemy of imagined 'others' and you win power.
The tories, their supporters and Brexit is to blame. MILLIONS of us did neither of those things.
People like to think they’re “in on it”. That they know better and that they will profit. Rather than the truth that they’re shooting themselves in the face to benefit their “betters”.
@@Lynnefromlyn I agree. However, we are all responsible for clearing the mess.
@@derekmab7734 But when you clear up their mess all they will do is vote for another mess safe in the knowledge you will clean it up.
Well spoken James! Absolutely spot on. I have for a long time now, been telling anyone who will listen that Britain is broken. More often than not I have been ridiculed but I know I was right. Britain is broken and I have a feeling that none of the current crop of politician's really have any clue as how to fix it.
I have lived in France for 15 years and choke on my corn flakes when the Tories say that all the same problems exist in Europe. Yes, there are similarities......fuel power etc but the government has been quick to act, and I can tell categorically there are no shortages in sup
I now live in Sweden and I can see that the UK is collapsing. My family in the UK are too close to see it, but "failed state " is probably close to the truth.
Lets call it what it is and stop hiding behind the word UK? It is England and only England.
How are things in Sweden? I hear that the new Swedes are constantly kicking off.
@@jonrich62 Well you hear wrong. Gang problems are an issue but "new" swedes are not the only ones involved in this.
When people work hard for a lifetime bit cab never afford a home to live and raise family. That is s failed state. When people work hard and can't afford to travel on trains. That is a failed state. When people work hard and can't afford food for their kids that is a failed state. We are here, have been for quite some time.
The UK was propped up by membership of the EU. Without that it is just going to implode.
Yet people will risk their lives and spend thousands to get here illegally , once here they have none of the above problems ,inflation or energy prices mean nothing to them they will be fed ,housed and kept warm all free of charge
Also when a government can use proper taxation and raise revenues in a way that can support the population rather than just become funnelled to a select class of 10% to 1%
It's not failing the billionaires who's wealth has been running away. They have been automating every job they can and reaping the rewards.
Thatcher promoted the greed and Ben Chapiro does it too.
Affiliated with one state that owns you.
Simple, really; all this is the result of hubris and arrogant English exceptionalism. Every other European former imperial power soberly adjusted to their diminished status. Britain still keeps solemnly handing out medals commemorating membership of a long gone empire. This is a lesson in reality and I suspect it’ll take a generation to be learnt. In the meantime, it’d be an idea to put King Lear on the reading list at Eton.
exactly right!
This is the heart of the matter right here.
Don't stop James. speaking truth to power is never comfortable but it is absolutely necessary. Thank you
Much of what he says isn't truth, it is opinion.
Totally disaster. I have aways been happy and proud to live in the UK.
Born in the village I still live in.
But now I am ashamed of my country and what its become under the tory rule.
I have never voted for them I was brought up in a Labour family.
But I can never remember in all of my 64 years whoever's in the driving seat being this scared of what the future holds fo me for my 88 year old dad my children and my grandchildren.
You are so right James.
THE COUNTRY is Absolutely BROKEN.
I was in the Philippines recently, the supermarkets were full to the brim. My wife who hasn't visited her country in almost a decade, kept commenting about how the infrastructure had improved and everyone seemed to have more money.
It's argued the Philippines is a third world country, if they have full super markets, what's Britain's ( the fifth largest economy in the world) excuse?
Brexit and the Tories have been a disaster.
@@mikeatcora no, I met her in a office we both worked at in London. You brain dead drongo.
@@mikeatcora that’s your ignorant reply? Pathetic man.
@@mikeatcora doubt that. Think you watch too much tv
@@mikeatcora What a horrible thing to say!
@@mikeatcora just cos you were reduced to having to by your wife, doesn’t mean everyone had to.
I know, right? That sentence re: the leaders of the NHS warning of "the risk of a humanitarian crisis linked to the impoverishment of the population." It just takes your breath away. As an indication of the state of affairs of the country and, of course, what that actually means for the poorer sectors of our society, those with no protection, who cannot afford to heat their homes or feed themselves or their children *already*, now the NHS (for god's sake!) issuing a warning like this. People getting sicker BECAUSE they are poor and cold and hungry. It's just astonishing. This is one of the richest countries in the world! We give huge subsidies (i.e. gifts, benefits) to arms manufacturers (sorry "the defence industry") and polluters (sorry "energy companies") and bankers but now we face "a humanitarian crisis" because people, vast numbers of people ARE POOR. This is the phrase you hear used to describe countries like Afghanistan and the Yemen. It's evil and criminal.
Exactly! Well said, Matt. There have been letters in my local newspapers over the last few of weeks from NHS spokespeople, warning of this, and also a warning of impending strike action by junior doctors due to the low pay and desperately long hours.
It's deliberate. Truss is going to further underfunding the NHS. They're a disgusting bunch. The hustings show that clearly ✌
It's always been there, just the circumstances prevented these problems from being seen. But now it's inevitable to face the music as things are glaringly obvious.
Putin got his money's worth on Brexit with Cambridge Analytica and his cheerleaders Farage, Johnson et al, didn't he?
Brexit happened and it was nothing whatsoever to do with Putin.
@@deang5622 Research the firm I mentioned and get informed, not to mention the Russian oligarch sourced donations that funneled into Cancervative coffers.. I'll wait for your mea culpa.
It was more that Putin gave them a voice on RT the rest was more a marriage of convenience
And there’s still people in this country who will vote for this madness
The lack of urgency in the Tory Government speaks volumes. They are utterly lost and have no answer to what they have done. The country is in the state it is after 12 years of Tory political choices. They should be ashamed, but they have no shame.
Absolutely right. They are just marking time to a general election. 6 months after Labour win, they will be criticizing because everything is not 100% better.
Buller Buller!
Sorry I fear you're wrong the Tories know exactly what they're doing since Johnson and the Russian state has had control of your parliament they're doing exactly what they intended to do and as a Scot the sooner they succeed the happier I'll be.
And they would rather blow the world up than admit any fault whatsoever.
They should be in jail, and the ones who lied to the queen should be at the end of a rope.
It's very hard to feel sorry for a country whose people continually vote against their own interests.
Totally agree.
I'm an Australian Anglophile (my mother was a Londoner and I lived there from 1962 - 1982). I have 3 children and three grandchildren living there.
The collapse of a once Great Nation is sad to watch.
Poor people want be BE like the Tories, so they keep voting for them in the dream it might come true. So Labour have decided to do the same also hoping it works for them too
Acknowledged.
Yes, this is as clear as day. So many Brexit voters still in denial. Witnessing it daily.
except we dont and that makes it even worse. May I remind you Tories huge majority in parliament yet failed to get more than half the votes
James as an American let me say I have great respect for you and your honesty and only wish we had someone like you here in our country which desperately needs a political and societal observer like you telling the truth to us.
Thom Hartmann does a three hour show every weekday and been in the game for almost 20 years publicly and has written over 20 books from a progressive point of view.
Oh, I'm very aware of Thom I've been watching him religiously since he first started and when he was on Air America. My comment about James is he's mostly on and I'm sure tv as well as radio and I'm sure has a more wide comparative viewership than over here because I'm certain the corporate interest in the UK is not nearly involved or pronounced over there what with their liable laws which means you can't so overtly engage in slander and outright lying on air or in other media like the press.
Don't forget a Fox Affiliate in Florida managed to get a federal court to rule they had a 1st Amendment-protected right to lie on tv and thus had a lower court ruling overturn a finding in a lawsuit brought against them that they had wrongly fired some journalist who refused to lie on air. on behalf of a company that bought advertising over the affiliate. It concerned a milk company that bought ads on the station and I believe the company was using plastic containers that had some dangerous chemical on the plastic or something possibly added to the diet of the cows that posed a danger to the public.
And it's my contention that the UK is part of the European tradition of activism for the rights most average people and labor are eager for it seems the influence of these new eras of Gilded Age perpetrators here in the US is clearly more advanced. Capitalism, to be honest, is as brutal as any ideology to come down the pike but kills one slowly by making life one miserable experience that lasts for many years rather than most violent tyrants have done. And while capitalism is about it they color it all within an atmosphere of legality.
And frankly Thom is perhaps too civil. I like James's aggressiveness, I like the way he will ridicule callers who disagree and haven't really put any thought into what they are proposing. He eventually gets around to exposing them for what they are which is white supremacist Fascists. Far too many American talking heads have a financial interest in not exposing openly Fascistic points of view equating the left and the right as being just alternative political stances. But the right is clearly totalitarian and they refuse to admit it.
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Oh but you’ve imported your own Brit for that. The amazing John Oliver 😄
As an American it's stunning to hear how the UK's problems so closely mirror those of the U.S. right now. You had Boris Johnson/Brexit. We had Trump. Both disasters have left us reeling from the never-ending fallout. It's ALMOST comical how I can come here and listen for awhile, and almost forget I'm hearing about the UK's woes instead of my own country's. I suppose on the plus side it makes me feel a special kinship with my British brethren across the pond. Stay strong, my friends!
Whose fault is in Italy? Brexit or Trump?
The socialist/nazis are a minority here as you are in the US.
If only the US never left the EU.
@@Paulie-276 Not sure what you're saying here, but okay....
Right wing hate media destroys countries.
"close to becoming a failed state"??
I think that particular ship sailed long ago.
When my mother was in a reflective mood in the last few years of her life she used to say "I wonder what you boys would be doing now if we hadn't left England".
My answer would always be the same. I'd still move to Australia.
In every respect she was a liberal but in spite of being dirt poor and working class she voted conservative - possibly because the grandparents who brought her up, voted conservative.
I could never understand why until I started to listen to LBC and take more interest in the goings-on in the country of my birth. It was then I realised what I had always seen in my parents - but less so in my father. It was the same sort of peasant mentality that's manifest in the Russians. It's an almost toxic desire to be ruled by your "betters" even though your "betters" were no better than the worst of you.
I suspect that the one thing in the very near future that will make the British take a close, and long hard look at where they are heading, is the demise of the current monarch.
As Christopher Hitchens used to say "This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII."
Maybe they will stop calling themselves Great Britain because "great" no longer applies.
Maybe they will stop calling themselves United Kingdom because they were never united. It was just a term used by England to keep the other members of the union from wanting their own place in the world. As for the word "Kingdom", really, in the 21st century??
The British have to decide whether they want to be ruled or they want to govern because at the moment they just want to, as James says, tug the forelock, doff the hat and say sir or madam.
Too right, m8.
And now I wonder what might have been if my parents had taken assisted passage when I was a baby in the 60's...
You are so correct in the term United Kingdom. We were annexed, not conquered, and only after a long struggle. The English are not known as The Old Enemy by the other three nations for no reason. The history is one of oppression and conflict, from Saxons to Normans, to Edward Longshanks and so on. Recently the Tories have assumed the task of keeping the lesser nations down on behalf of our present Monarchy, who are actually German, not British, and an anachronism we could do without. There has always been a lot of resentment, but the divide between the haves and the have nots can be shown on a map, and it's all concentrated in the South East, the further North or West you are, the less they care. And Brexit has taken us back decades, and may well result in the dissolution of the Union. However it happens, something has to change.
You are wrong great Britain was coined by Romans, nothing to do with Britain been my greatest empire of influencer in history. And UK was started by Scotland not England. King James. The kingdom of England was to join with wales war before. Please learn history of have you wokes redacted truth????
@@frankklein4872 British history goes back much further than the Romans. Who do you think built Stonehenge, or Skara Brae? The tin that made the Bronze Age possible was mined, refined and traded from Cornwall all over the rest of the then known world. The Cymru, Lloegrans and Albans were the earliest settlers we know of, Picts and Scots (from Ireland) later displaced and mixed with the early inhabitants of Scotland. Saxons, Jutes, Angles, Danes, Norse and so on also came and eventually settled mainly along the East and South coasts. But Wales, Scotland and Ireland have always had their own cultures and languages despite all efforts to ''Unify'' the country.
"England Your England”. “It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.” George Orwell
Johnson appears to have become a self-appointed president who only deals with state visits. Why deal with the mess that his indolence and vainglory permitted when he can be off in Kyiv playing at Churchill.
Yep. He is nothing but a Cosplay Churchill.
@@treborsirrah7916 Indeed. But he was at least ousted by the vote of the people.
The Ukrainian President is the only one who still likes him 😂
What a sad little comparison you’ve managed to conjure up there. So the PM shouldn’t show continued support for Ukraine.
@@intothemultiverse1033 not when the country he was elected to run goes down the drain.
The fact that I can hear James ask this brings joy to my heart, I could clearly see where the policies espoused in 1983 would lead, my only surprise is it took until 2022 for us to arrive at our destination!
Spot on Greg.
It effected poorer people much sooner, now it's going up the class ladder.
U.S inflation hit 7% in December, fastest pace since 1982 . Consumer prices in Germany rose by 3.1% in 2021 . France shows a 12 -months inflation rate of 3.4% the highest since September 2008.
American workers are experiencing unprecedented declines in their real incomes, which is why record numbers have been forced to work multiple jobs to make ends meet. When we talk about 9.1% inflation, the media acknowledged the true rate of inflation of about 18%?
It's going to break to the downside because of the macro economic conditions. It will not recover until the US inflation rate starts to come down. Right now, crypto derivatives trades are the only thing in my portfolio that is doing well and making me serious money.
the severity of the condition of our economic circumstances is beyond many peoples comprehension and many continue to deny its existence.People are working and there is little or nothing to show for it. everybody is basically working to sort out one bill or the other. no savings.
Nothing like fake inflation numbers. Let’s play a game. You list items we use in our daily lives that have only increased by 7%. I’ll list items that have increased by at least 20%. Who will list more items and win?
Sewage in rivers and beaches, 40 hour wait for ambulance with a 20 hour wait in a&e, current crime wave, current electricity crisis, homeless crisis, policing crisis, housing crisis, cost of living crisis.
Yeah we're doing great :)
Hey, it isn't all bad, Billionaires have never been so rich.
And Tories will say "That's because of blah blah blah". The right wing papers have an excuse for everything the Tories f*ck up.
The UK seems completely rudderless. Folks in power have zero interest in helping those less fortunate. How people vote Tory will always leave me scratching my head.
UK has a zombie government, they are all on holiday just like Boris Johnson who has been on two holidays recently while the UK people are forced into destitution and using food banks.
They read papers owned by billionaires. Which set the radio news agenda. Which set the TV news agenda.
I voted for none,as they are all of the same ilk
We are now in a situation where nothing is getting done in this country because those in government are incapable of asking ‘why’ something is happening and identifying the root cause of problems.
Take the NHS waiting time issue for example. A pragmatic approach would be to ask why there are high waiting times; because there are staffing issues. Then to ask why there are staffing issues; because we don’t have the skilled people to place in roles. Why don’t we have skilled people to place in roles? Because we have closed the door on freedom of movement for a huge pool of needed, skilled workers.
The government cannot ask ‘why’ too many times because eventually the ultimate answer will put them in the firing line, so they just say “it’s broken, but nothing can be done”.
They are the root cause of the problem... Every Quality inspector or assurance advisor knows this is a top management problem.
You are perceiving the wrong cause of the NHS problems. First the white British population has declined by 4,000,000 in the last 20 years whereas as non white British has increased by 13,000,000 in the same time. Immigration is causing our problems e.g. NHS waits, u affordable housing, congestion, loss of green belt and it is not the solution it is destroying England at lightning speed and immigrants just enjoy this country and exploit it for everything as we have a weak and emasculated state.
This is a lie, British kids are being prevented from medical school
I think it may be already worse. I had a conversation with someone back in January about the state of things. I honestly think we are in the midst of societal collapse. Everywhere you look, things are broken. I've got to the point of living each day the best I can because looking at the future is terrifying. I don't think it's just Britain.
There doesn't appear to be a bright future anywhere.
Mass immigration, globalisation and leftism are the causes. We were much happier in the 50s without so many material things but we had a stable unified culture, smaller population and people were a lot more self sufficient
bad times make strong people - its a cycle. but yes, revolutions are afoot.
I well remember the early 1980s under Thatcher's first term when inflation went up to 22% in 1980, unemployment reached 3 million (12.5% of the workforce) in 1982, and the 1981 riots in Brixton, Toxteth, Handsworth, Chapelton, and Moss Side, all of which were fuelled by racial inequality and inner city deprivation. Yet, I can't remember it being as bad or having the sense of hopelessness as it does now. And there wasn't the reliance on food banks as there is now, even at the height of all those troubles in the 1980s. That really got to me when I read that there were now 2,572 UK food banks, and growing, due to more British people falling into the poverty trap. Whatever happened to a "Home fit for Heroes" or that the NHS would be "safe in out hands"?
The Encyclopedia Britannica defines a failed state as:
"A failed state is composed of feeble and flawed institutions. Often, the executive barely functions, while the legislature, judiciary, bureaucracy, and armed forces have lost their capacity and professional independence. A failed state suffers from crumbling infrastructures, faltering utility supplies and educational and health facilities, and deteriorating basic human-development indicators, such as infant mortality and literacy rates. Failed states create an environment of flourishing corruption and negative growth rates, where honest economic activity cannot flourish."
I believe that some of those points can be checked off for the UK as it stands today.
Thank you for that definition. Sounds like much of what we see in the UK and USA.
We are there. Even down to literacy rates, at my daughter's school, the 6th year students are being used to help first years, 12 year olds, learn to read. Basics like colours. It's shocking and heartbreaking and covid can only be blamed so much, we cannot accept the pandemic as any sort of excuse for the state of things.
Don’t blame me I voted for Jeremy Corbyn.
It just gets more relevant every single day.
Not taking own responsibility is the worst of all British faults.
There was never any possiblity Jeremy Corbyn was ever going to win a General Election. To change things for the better you have to get into power first.
@@peterebel7899 Moronic statement as usual Peter. You literally will not understand that people in the UK exist who vote and campaign to try to prevent what is happening now. Do you "take own responsibility" - I doubt it since you're obsessed with telling everyone else to do it.
Me too
Corbyn was the wrong leader at that time. He couldn't engage on Brexit, because he wanted to leave the EU but the demographics who supported him didn't.
Ironically, if he was leader now, he'd have a much easier time of it
We should all thank the Tories for driving this country in to the dirt, while the rich quaff fizz and rub their hands at their gains. I'm eternally grateful to the richest of the rich making sure us not well off peasants return to the medieval days of rummaging in the gutters to eat.
BRAVO BORIS!!
Thank you James. Keep speaking, hopefully the majority will listen, learn and act... Eternally optimistic.
People in this country are more concerned with what's happening on Eastendes, what takeaway to order this evening from UberEats, what film to watch on Netflix, Love Island and Z list celebrities. The toffee nosed middle class retirees just shun their nose up hoping it will all just "go away" because their lives are ok. They have their houses and nest egg and don't want any trouble. As long as they can go to the supermarket every day, do some gardening and such they are fine. They have given up caring. This society is in deep decay.
I think you are spot on there ,that's my take on it also.the benefit class don't give a fig or have a clue about politics,the middle classes ,as you say bringing up middle class entitled children
I’ve spent 16+ hours in A&E when I’ve had to take my dad in with aspirational pneumonia. Not easy when he also has Alzheimer’s and doesn’t understand why he’s not being seen. I had to drive him in too as the wait for an ambulance was 10+ hours. It’s scary!!
It feels like the NHS is being deliberately run down by the Government so people will beg to go private, and those that are elderly or disabled will die and not be a ‘drain’ on the benefit system anymore!😭
Aspirational pneumonia? Did it vote Tory
Same thing is being done in Canada.
I'm from the US and a first-time listener. It was sad but refreshing to see someone speak candidly about the elephant in the room. Much of what you said can also be said about our country. We elected a crazy, corrupt man to run the country and he surrounded himself with self-serving scoundrels bent on demolishing what is left of the middle class. We are bigger so we haven't reached your level of desperation yet, but if the trajectory continues, we will inevitably get there.
>We elected a crazy, corrupt man to run the country and he surrounded himself with self-serving scoundrels bent on demolishing what is left of the middle class.
Yes, Sleepy Joe.
This country has been a failed state for many years if I could afford to live abroad somewhere I would move away in a heartbeat, to much greed to much corruption & to much hate to name a few.
I came to England at the very start of 2019 seeking a life not filled with misery away from Greece. I fought hard to demand reasonable wages so as not to bring the wage of unskilled labour down to the level of Greece, and yet looking back at Greece, I can rent a house for 400 Euros and earn about 700 Euros a month. If I want to rent a house in Spalding, a small town, I need over 2k pounds a month and despite earning about 30% above minimum wage, that isn't enough to cover even that. Congrats people, you ruined this country so bad that I legit think I can go back to debt-ridden, desperate and crumbling Greece, and probably live a more luxurious life. How you did this I dunno, but you are impressive.
You can also choose Netherlands or another civilised EU country, you don't have to return to Greece straight away
the UK is standing on the edge of a cliff and tomorrow, it will make a step forward!
@@jillybe1873 I have heard some weird stuff about Netherlands, so I am weary, but I might try that.
Well if Britain is that bad no one is forcing you to stay here. At least you have the luxury of returning Greece, most British people don’t have the opportunity you have..
@@Arltratlo we did that when May signed her UK suicide note
And yet, as Brits, we have a bit of a moan and do nothing. When are we going yo actually act?
You are looking at levels of poverty not seen since the 1930s with truss cutting wages in a recession with a cost of living crisis and record breaking inflation leading almost certainly to revolution because by cutting wages you remove the ability of people to keep the economy going buy buying things like food in a recession
When we finally stop being keyboard warriors and become real ones.
Join Enough is Enough. Let's stand together
@@Craig121000 eh?
That is what the world is waiting for - well at least a few are still waiting, the rest have given up.
Brexit Broke Britain
It’s worth it all to get the crown back on our beer glasses.
It's great to be positive and excited by researching what new country to move to . Gives a challenge, engagement, even recognition, and much needed hope that yes we can be involved in building a better future!!!
Honestly, the UK makes me very sad at the moment, I returned to the UK 7 years ago and it's got measurably and significantly worse to live in over that time, and the breaks my heart.
I'm now facing a situation where wethering the storm is the only thing I can do, and hoping that on the other side is something better, but I have little confidence in that.
Simple solution: Go back to wherever you were 7 years ago.
@@tendrosstoodross2976 I am British, I just lived abroad for a number of years, but this is my home,
But that's besides the point, you are basically saying it's a lost cause?
@@JottoHearthStone Its a lost cause for people like yourself.
I take it you want the UK to bow and scrape and beg for readmission to the EU?
That isnt going to happen.
If you dont like the way the UK is post Brexit there is no point moaning about it, it is what it is.
@@tendrosstoodross2976 honestly, the UK would be better off in the EU but I know that's not going to happen, at this point I've accepted that until the next election things are just going to get worse
2024 is the last chance the UK has to turn things around before the damage it set in place for decades.
@@tendrosstoodross2976 “if you don’t like the way something is there’s no point moaning about it”
My dude, that is not how progress works 😂 Nothing gets fixed in this world until someone moans about it. Every right we have in this country is because of people moaning somewhere along history.
When it gets to January and we have thousands freezing to death indoors and everyone else rooming around pillaging whatever is left in the shops you'll know what failure actually looks like. At least the overturned, burning cars might keep a few warm.
Yes, unfortunately that could be the scene at the end of the road....followed by a military takeover?
@@gordonbryce by that point the army might be on strike as well. £18k a year to gun down your freezing nan?
people voted for it... they didnt want the alternative...
....voted for what...?
Sounds like you are looking forward it happening just to prove a political point.
The root of the problem is a failed democratic system. The UK has an electoral system that is not democratic ie the make up of Parliament does not reflect the expressed will of the electorate when they voted. BJ increased the Tory share of the vote by a measly 1.5% at the last election which resulted in an unassailable 80 seat majority in the house! 1.5% is less than the margin of error in an opinion poll! In a first past the post electoral system your vote for one candidate is in effect a vote against all the others. 56% of the electorate voted against a Tory government but there they sit with a huge majority. Reform the electoral system and fairer government will follow. First past the post in a 2 party state works but not when it's multi party.
James.... Have been following u for 2 yrs.. Abd only now I must message u. I am 79 yrs of age.. & agree with all your policies.. Wish you were running the country but I know chances of that are similar to winning lottery.. Keep going you are such a loving ambassador for the working class don't care ur circumstances. ❤️🌹🏴
As Mr Jefferson said “The government you elect is the government you deserve”.
What does that say about the UK population? I am so ashamed
It doesn't help that there have been a number of things done over the years to make it easier for Tories to win elections, thanks to things like boundary changes. The Local Governments Act in the 70's was a massive case of redrawing the voting boundary's to favour one side far more than the other.
Don’t blame me.
I voted for Jeremy Corbyn.
Yes…..and the world will have no sympathy when we finish messing up our economy. Why should they?
They never forced us to vote Brexit, nor Tory.
@@mike-xt7qi me too.
There are two things I am looking for that would be a sign of hope for the UK:
1). The vast majority of the people being absolutely disgusted with the Tories and NEVER voting for them again.
2). The vast majority of the people being absolutely disgusted with the right-wing media and NEVER again believing a word they say, and NEVER again buying one of those rags unfit even for toilet paper.
Until those happen, the UK is going to have a bit of a rough time.
@TheEvertw • PERFECTLY PUT.👏👏👏👏
Right wing media lol
@Deano ' no gas available ' ... you mean ?? or
'' All EUs fault '' ??
@@Paulie-276 what's funny champ?
Can't happen, the newspapers get most their funding from facebook, the media is propagated through facebook I can't honestly say with percentages but it is increasing as the UK government turn the entire mainstream press into a facebook funded endeavor.
This way they are secured even if they don't sell a single newspaper.
They are also in effect owned by those who pay them the most and will most likely move towards their bidding to ensure payment continues.
I think it is called the F word. But they claim it to be free market capitalism, along with their contracts for their mates who wasted all the money,
GB started being a “ Failed” state when it lost its foothold in the countries that were once hailed as the British Empire, yes one by one they took back what was theirs!! When you take the bottom bricks out of a wall one by one eventually the wall will tumble, and even more quickly when the Tories are helping themselves to those remaining bricks !!
Having lived through the 70s and 80s and the energy shocks and deindustrialization I feel the current situation isn't as challenging; but we are facing a worse future because, unlike then, the current government are such a bunch of third rate minds that know nothing but mindless dogma and are totally incapable of dealing with the situation.
66 years of age and I have never seen anything like this? Doctors hospital appointments do not exist, operations you either die or end up bed ridden or in a wheel chair and all blamed on the working poor, disabled and the dingie on the horizon to defect from the incompetence of the last 12 years!
Amazing how people keep voting Tory. Beats me.
Because Labour are even worse.
Not close we are a failed state right now. Watch what happens this coming winter.
I work in Nhs staff are leaving in droves, no replacement many leaving the profession the pressure is unreal. We’re to are struggling to pay rent, bills cost of food without pay rises and are then expected to go in to work and deal with an avalanche of patients problems we are literally drowning
took 11 hours for my son to be seen at A&E. He'd broken his arm and so was low priority. No fault on the staff of the hospital, but 1 doctor covering an entire children's ward, and was doing double shift in the main A&E.
Broken bones are not low priority. Lethal blood clots can form.
Sorry to read this Andy Hope he feels better..
Sorry to hear that, and hope your son is well and recovering after what is quite traumatic injury for a child. I'm so disgusted by the increasing neglect of our National Health Service by the Conservative Party, since they have been in power over then last ten years. Do not forget, "Bullingdon Club". Always remember "Bullingdon Club" as you see our nation fall further into corruption, despair, privatisation and instability. A small group of privellaged public school boys have literally shafted this country, and it's citizens, "For the Sport"
@@blidduth8946 And the money...
I had to go to A&E here in Madrid, Spain. I was seen in about 10 minutes and about 20 minutes later I was in bed hooked up to a drip and a heart monitor by a beautiful nurse! In the next hour or so, I was seen by about 6 specialists while being waited on hand and foot by a team of nurses. Just like Blighty, then.
I hope your son is ok.
Meanwhile, Boris is in Kyiv, where he’s apparently popular.
I mean ukrainians don't really know whats going on here.
And they got other issues like a genocidal army trying to take over their entire country to worry about.
Hope the 🤡stays over there as a mp
They love him - he’s just this jolly English fellow who turns up with money and high powered weaponry 🙄
On a narcissistic last lap of backslapping from people with a real leader that don’t have to live with his bs
Isn’t it part of his backup plan to be head of NATO?
I moved to Australia nearly 6 years ago . It’s not perfect but seeing the decline of UK is incredible and sad .
So glad we left
As mentioned if the British people keep voting Tory you get what you vote for, it shocks me how working class people keep voting for them when they treat them with utter contempt
Yes, let's all move abroad. Problem solved.
It will happen, britainistan will be a slum
I moved back from Australia 6 years ago after being there 10 years, I still think I made the right decision, Australia seemed to be going down the pan
@@edwardwilson7485 yeah I’d like to move back to the uk. I might wait a while though. Oz certainly isn’t perfect.
As a aussie I'm in shock that the UK has become a failed state faster than the USA mind you the UK could break Tory rule by voting independent or a Scottish independence and Irish unification
Oh, James, I feel your pain. Over here in the states, we are dealing with a bumbling narcissistic dolt who wanted to be king taking home papers of national security interests. And by the way, things are heating between the British Navy and the Russians. Can we all agree that conservatives simply cannot govern?
@Lightbringer +
I must admit his success pales in comparison to Boris Johnson, or, for that matter Trump. Nice try though.
Was in A&E for a knee injury 10 days ago. Took 11 hours from entering to leaving. Took 4 hours for a doctor to initially see me, had the x-ray and then waiting 6 hours for the doctor to tell me what I already knew, I hadn't broken anything. On top of that, I wasn't given crutches until the end so I was totally immobile for those 11 hours. The doctor stated that she was the only one in A&E that night, and she'd seen 26 people before me.
I've now been referred for an MRI, as it's probably ligament damage to my knee. I'm really hoping I won't need an operation, as I don't know when that would happen. It was bad enough when I injured by other knee 10 years ago - I waited 3 years and eventually the NHS paid for me to go to BUPA for the operation.
Yeah, unfortunately when you go private you end up seeing NHS doctors anyway. So basically you pay a premium to skip the queue
Were you in favour of lockdowns and restrictions for the past two years? The level of cognitive dissonance Is incredible.
I was bitten by a Scalopendra, a very poisonous centipede, just before Easter.
After four days the pain was unbearable, and because it is a nerve poison it can cause mental problems.
I went to my local A&E, it was Easter Saturday.
I was seen by a doctor within ten minutes, treated, given appropriate pills and a prescription for the chemist across the road.
Also three sheets of A4 detailing the whole business.
Within half an hour I was homeward bound on my scooter, vastly relieved. Total cost 10 euros.
I live in Andalucia, I´m an English immigrant, a very grateful one.
If you were in USA it would have cost you $70,000 so waiting is not so bad,we've all been there done that
Trashed by the tories.
I think the situation lies squarely on the way politics works in the UK. Essentially modern politicians have no need or wish to look further than the next election. Instead of a Statesman who looks forward to what can be done for the next generation. Politicians with few exceptions are basically not worth the money. The whole system needs re-inventing. Including the way tax is collected.
This is what happens when you don't educate people properly and then give them an existential vote!!!!!
12 years of these idiots ruling us !
I started digging up my lovely garden today to plant potatoes, carrots and broccoli.
I'm 69 worked since I was 15.
I had to stop after an hour because my feet were killing me. I can't afford a decent pair of boots!
What size boots are you?
Aren't you eligible for a Pension now, Bez?
I moved into a new house earlier this year, and have started growing my own veg as well. Also in need of a decent pair of boots (Heel's more or less fully worn out after nearly 4 years wear) but can't get any help from Universal Credit for clothes as I've got to wait till October 2023 before I can apply for another loan from the DWP...
@@mikeoglen6848 the lowest pension in Europe you Muppet
@@markypatt8340 Sorry, Pratt, I don't get a pension so I didn't know, but surely you can buy a pair of boots with it?
I can not use my local pub anymore because the landlord insists on providing the Telegraph and Daily Mail for his customers misinformation. The more I think about it, the more I feel disgust at their presence and influence and simply cannot bear to go in the place without wanting to bin the things.
Just bring a Sharpie and write Beano and Dandy over the titles.
@@erebusvonmori8050 Lovely idea. Thanks.
@@erebusvonmori8050 Don't insult the real Beano and Dandy, at least they're mildly entertaining and uplifting instead of deeply depressing!
Thank you James for the Le Monde editorial mention. I looked it up immediately but It seems to be necessary to subscribe to it. Only £2.49 a month which isn't a lot but may be beyond some people's budgets 'in the current economic situation' it's a pity.
The UK has been broken since the 90s. Becoming a failed state? We have been living in one for a long time!!
Entitlement, inefficiency and misinformation has become the norm. Mentioned it on another post but the dangerous variant of Populism can often arise when the reality of one’s country is so different from their proud and patriotic perspective and it allows people like Boris to thrive. You can almost feel it, we’re all so strained that we take it out on each other. ‘Great’ Britain…
Well said Alex
Thank you, kind of you to say 😊
Johnson loves places where his ego is high , maybe him and his family would be better off living in Ukraine . Funny though he was for Brexit and Ukrainians want to be in the EU
Ukraine only like him because he gave them money and weapons, which is what any British PM would have done regardless of which side of the isle they come from. Even Corbyn would have done it, though I imagine he'd have spent far more effort trying to get all parties around a negotiating table too.
And guess where he turned up yesterday…?
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. (Hint: it wasn’t Westminster.)
@Deano why won’t they release the Russian Report . Conservative party was funded by Russia. GSHQ should investigate.
The problem of having a 2 party State . . . 47% of the electorate will always vote for Party "X". 47% will always vote for Party "Y". No if's. No but's. Every time. Long ago the politicians worked out that they didn't have to worry about the 47% who won't vote for them. Then along came Trump whose team worked out that not only don't you have to worry about those that won't vote for you but you can also ignore the 47% who will vote for you also. You only have to worry about the 6%. In the UK that's about 2 million votes. Until we start making every constituency in the Country a marginal seat nothing will change.
Where do I start...just genius! We are, indeed, fooked!
We are not close to a failed state we are already there ffs
Now you mention it, l think you're possibly right unfortunately.
As soon as foodbank collection points appeared in practically every supermarket in the country, we were a failed state. My father, a traditional middle-class Tory voter, highlighted this point last time we spoke.
@@JJKebab9 your dad sounds like a wise man.
...no where near it..very disrespectful to genuine failed states if I may say so...you don't have to parrot everything James says to fill his show....😊..
We arn't.
We don't have an armed insurgancy.
Once there is one then we are.
Nailed it. Things are really bad. We’re an embarrassment if you ask me. It’s going to get worse before it gets better.
Like after WW3 ?
.....we are not a failed state...don't be dim...James is just playing you....
@@chatham43 Are you having a laugh?
with climate change happening at a faster rate then anybody predicted, it seems we are running out of time.
@@chatham43 because???
10% of the NHS budget is wasted type diabetes 2 treatment,people whom can't be bothered to change their lifestyle,I know nurses whom are angered by these patients
Your best commentary ever! You nailed it.
General Strike and force the Governments hand to do something, we are all sat watching this happen and doing nothing. Our ancestors all had a responsibility to leave a decent country for the next generations, so do we.
My son is French and he keeps asking me if I want money and/or food parcels. Food is far cheaper in France. Energy is less now than it was 5 years ago. The Tories couldn't run a bath.
Thank you for speaking out.
8hrs in A&E is generous James, I recently clocked up 21hrs!
An analogy I used the other day about the cost of living crisis: we are on a plane which is in a nose dive which could lead to oblivion. Nobody is doing anything to avert disaster. Therefore, oblivion is inevitable.
Are you aware of Lord Giddens ? The famous sociologist who Blair borrowed from?? He was the chap who spoke about society as a runaway juggernaut, speeding up all the time, out of control, with no one at the wheel, just vested interests fighri g to get to the front, tugging at the wheel in desperation.
Look him up, he is important in terms of understanding how sociology and academia can be *astardised by ideological binted ppl and used to undermine our way of life.
I would also say the Tories are now like that retired dad who keeps crashing his car and you have to take the keys away.... Sad.
This is what happens when Conservatism reigns.
I am working overseas and my western colleagues show concerns about our situation and asking how my family and extended family members are coping. It is almost like should UNHCR should open it's operation to response to this crisis? Should rest of the worldcrsise fund to feed UK’s hungry children? Are we becoming like post war Afghanistan? Poverty and hunger everywhere. 😱😨😩
Can we hear from the Brexiteers at this moment in time from their point of view of all of this? I know people dont want to hear this but lets revisit and have a proper vote ob rejoining. We were all lied to. If the outcome is still overwhelmingly 'leave' then we know exactly where we stand with this country
85% of Cameron's government were remainers. How quickly the guardian libtards forget
Close?! We're already there!
I just completed the Govt. form about my views on a) either being totally Imperial on my purchased goods or b) have metric as a secondary, but in smaller print, to an Imperial wieght. The entire survey presumes that everyone under 45/50, will have to scrap their education and learn an ancient, illogical system that I, for one, stopped using by the late 1960s (I am 74). This is crazy, when quite strangely, we have been using both systems without compulsion since the 1970s. Only a handful of countries use Imperial so, industry is not printing all this labelling for them. The people who still use only Imperial will disappear in 10/20 years and industry will lose its customers. I think this driven by JR-M. More entertainment for the rest of the world.
Aw .. I want one! Then I’d take it to my once-remainer MP .. her name is RUTH EDWARDS and her constituency is Rushcliffe Notts. She is like Liz Truss a REMAINER turned ardent LEAVER.. I’m 73 so I do think feet/inches but my kids and grandkids are metric. Sheer idiocy. Costly idiocy.
Deckchairs Shuffling Titanic...
@@darrylsimpson4744 You can fill it in online. It’s the worst written “poll” I’ve ever seen. You can write comments for all your answers so it worth filling it in.
@@ecoworrier I'm putting four knotts in my hankie and getting a deckchair.
If there’s no general election and soon I really feel we will collapse and it’s terrifying.
No James I don’t get it either, if the Labour Party were responsible over the last 12 years with this outcome they would never be returned to power again.
Daily express writers of anti strike articles shouldnt be allowed to strike 😂
I’m at a point I just don’t know what to do any more we are so powerless we need a national strike and some organised revolt!
European companies that used to use British goods or parts are now looking else where for the same goods due to transport worries in the UK.
‘A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.’ George Orwell