As an African Im always stunned when a British person wants to talk my ear off about how China is supposedly doing "neo colonialism" in Africa. When these same individuals dont seem to mind the American colonization of the UK lol. Or the fact that the UK is a vassal state of the US. There is no African country that is controlled by, takes orders from, or is submissive and subservient to China at any level comparable to the UK in all those ways that the UK is to America. No African country is sending their militaries to help China invade, bomb and occupy other countries as the UK does for America (there appears to be no BS war the Brits won't get involved with now to please their boss). Of course it helps that China isn't doing any of that.
Putting these two things together lol good try. China is building infrastructure of course they can’t control that. People call it neocolonialism because you might not be able to pay it back. They made Sri Lanka give them a port because they couldn’t pay on time.
This is not only a UK problem. Most of Western EU has been "vassalized". Some countries, such as Germany and Italy, are literally colonies where nothing moves without US approval.
@@damepipiTV-uw3qfNot so much for France tbh, the french could actually break away from American imperialism if they actually wanted to. Much harder for the UK and Germany to do that
Working for a US company means you will get daily emails telling you how much they love and value you, all the while planning to outsource your department to Bangaluru.
I remember reading that the country in which "Bangaluru" is will cease to exist. Or such was the claim of Winston Churchill in the late 1940s. He also thought Pakistan would be a great partner and a strong nation, UK's legacy in that region. Now UK will become Pakistan the way they are taking over. Hilarious to see how it all is turning out. Karma.
Bought his book a few months ago. This guy has done a PHENOMENAL amount of research into this topic. I genuinely thought nobody would, as I'm sure many others did also. Props to Angus Hanton, he's a true gem of a human being, empathy in tact in and fighting for justice in a lonely field.
Interesting Britain worrying about being foreign /American owned. In South Africa we worry about much of our mineral profits going to London. Can't take your own medicine now can you.
Lol, I left the UK for Japan years ago, and basically just swapped one US vassal state for another. Both large islands off the coast of continents. Unsinkable aircraft carriers basically. It's very sad.
Japan is a lot more capable than UK though. And is likely to break free of US orbit when the new world order forms during the period of this Cold War 2.0. UK will stay a vassal to USA for a LONG time.
Once upon time England hand a grip on more than a hundred countries. Time is the greatest equalizer and has put western chauvinism (at least the European kind) in its grave
Its all a lie its more the other way around thats the real truth america won a war but we still had far too much power sk they signed an agreement decided by our king and the pope thats what they say though israel has alot of power too some say its them that controls things through finance
That's true. Britain had became American's vassal long ago. Former Secretary of State for Business and Trade Vince Cable told but people were asleep. Look up below. " UK banned Huawei because US told us to: former minister "
@@JohnWilkinson-f4k sorry I missed the 60's on account of being born well after that decade. Why throw a straw man in there? (internet usage) Using a product or service is not comparable to corporate takeovers by US corporations.
Explains nothing, everything you mention are effects not causes, as is £3trillion national debt, bankrupt councils and illogical unscientific hegemony.
The Brits seem to be sleep walking into decline. I'm genuinely concerned about where my country of origin is going. Glad I left for America 40 years ago.
The UK never got hold of the fact that it actually lost WWII and it was occupied and colonized by the US, just like Germany, and the whole Empire and the Commonwealth became a toolbox for American hegemony to extend worlwide.
That’s why Amazon have it’s most highest paying tech jobs in the uk. We are not taxing them 25% corp tax because they are giving us jobs in east London which are paying 45% income tax. The sheer number of these people I meet is crazy
This won't be discussed on the mainstream.We are the lacky of the US have been for many years.And where does all the money go, not in our housing infrastructure the railways the NHS you name it.4 million kids in poverty in the UK something to be proud off?
America is our biggest export market but the money isn't invested in the UK. It gets invested in America, they get our goods and their money is invested back into their country.
While the US convinced the UK not to allow China to build high speed rail lines in the UK and the danger of using refrigerators and toaster ovens from China the US has systemically dismantled every major industry in the UK and replace it with an American company - including the defense industry that is responsible for making bombs, fighter jets, and other weapons as well as the computer systems that store important information about the UK’s military and its soldiers and citizens! But letting the US have such power over the UK is not a danger to the UK in any way, eh?
I was initially reluctant to start the video because of its length and time. But I'm so glad that I did! The easy flow of conversation and the clear jargon-free discussion were so interesting. Almost feel that I've been walking blind all this time. I learnt so much. Thank you!
It should read 'How the USA runs Europe'. It is not just Britain, it is Europe and so many other countries and it must stop. The rot is not just rotting but ruining all Vassal states, economically and morally.
We’ve had Thatcherism since 1979 which serves the interests of the (mainly overseas) wealthy. The problem with Thatcherism is that you eventually run out of assets to sell to overseas investors so that they can rip off British consumers.
That was not the idea behind Thatcherism, your conflating 2 different things. If you lived through 70/80s and how terrible that was you would have voted conservative I guarantee. It’s funny how so many people talk about thatcher but did not live through the UK going to the INF with a begging bowl because Labour and the unions had bankrupted it.
Seriously, this guy said, with a straight face, “Thatcher would be horrified if she saw what’s happening right now”. Hard to take seriously at that point.
Also, the eventual outcome which is now glaringly apparent. Is that all those assets the state sold off are now used to extract rents from us. We are now a nation of slaves to foreign capital. We are as a nation being ground into dust by it. Can't see the point of having an armed forces. When a foreign power can openly walk in and buy us out for less time and effort than trying to invade. Our political class and media are totally compliant.
Isnt it Ireland? A lot more US people identify as having roots in Ireland, and the US is basically propping up the Irish economy thru huge investments. Ireland, by proximity, investment, and people identifying as Irish, looks like the best contender as the pseudo 51st state.
I live in the potteries, as it used to be called, which used to employ nearly everyone in stoke on Trent. American companies could afford to buy the brands and have the product made in China. Even the brands that outsourced their own products couldn’t compete with American firms because they were able to get better prices because they could place larger orders. Thatcher and neoliberalism betrayed our country.
@@vardendelalol no it isn't, it's definitely related to ethnoreligion. If you are the right ethnoreligion and put yourself forward they will engineer your promotion into the higher economic classes.
You're right and wrong. It is your class. And a certain group Z considers themselves the highest class of human being, with others not quite fully human. No't only do they work hard to get to the top, which I have no issue with. They work actively to control and or destroy others. I did not believe that for a long time, but after 15 or 20 years of research it appears to be very true.
I honestly think this is one of the most important issues in the UK right now. It's a risk to our democracy and to our well-being. We can not make meaningful change and have autonomy whilst this continues to happen. I have read the book and I am so happy this is finally getting the attention is needs.
this was a really good discussion, something that i didn't realise was talked about in public...it seems that unless we can completely change our system in the next few years, the tipping point will have been exceeded if it hasn't been already...i just wish this discussion was on the BBC along with other discussions of this nature, every night....not with politicians but with independent free minds such as these two gentlemen..
Things won’t change, Keir Starmer is actually the security service’s choice for labour leader. He really was picked by them to run labour after the got rid of JC. They made sure you had a choice between the Tory govt & the Tory opposition.
You can tell how the UK is becoming more and more ‘Americanised’ by how things like the school system has completely changed - we now have ‘high schools’, year 1 to year 11!? Instead of 1st year, 2nd year etc. oh yes and ‘proms’. No infants, junior and secondary! Shops are slowly becoming ‘stores’ - Dates are now ‘June 10’ instead of 10th of June. I find this ‘Americanisation’ really irritating!
I agree. When did 'hack' creep into British English usage?? e.g 'Ten Hacks for doing....' the word is 'Tips' - 'Ten Tips for doing....'.! Then there's different ways some British people pronounce the words now...for example: 'Schedule' - it's with a 'shhh', not a 'skkk'. British way it looks when pronounced - 'Shed-jewel' American way it looks when pronounced - 'Sked- dual' ...and let's not forget the more direct and ruder sounding: 'Can I get a coffee' (American way); compared with: 'Can I have a coffee, please' (British way). This one does irritate me. The way the word 'Please' is increasingly being dropped by alot of people now, when they're talking or asking for something. It's just so rude as far as I'm concerned. Oh, and you compare things 'WITH' each other, not 'TO' each other.....e.g 'Compared with' ....... rather than 'Compared to'.
@@Abbale It's not being 'fascist', it's trying to protect British English from the increasing onslaught of American words, American expressions, other Americanisms, and the general 'Americanisation' of British English. This may not matter to you - but it matters to me..... aswell as tens of millions of other British people. Btw, try using the word 'fascist' in the right context. This isn't it.
agreed, i’m american and we do not benefit much - the elite and corporations grow fat while we struggle. I have changed my spending habits and support local small businesses as much as possible. Going back to school to help support my plan to open a clinic. maybe if more Britain’s start side hustles where they see a need and bring back vocational jobs and craftsmanship? it’s not easy but we need to do what we can where we can.
It’s really depressing that this has happened, the worst being our national infrastructure particularly the NHS. I try to buy as much as I can from artisanal / independent British made companies or brands.
The problem isn't the Americans. It's our overall unpatriotic political and economic class. Every major socio-economic problem in the UK can be resolved if they show an ounce of concern but *they don't care* Profit > People. It's infuriating 😡
Capitalism has 5 major pillars, and the first is Individualism as rational self-interest. Any groups are to be distrusted, unless they are a means to fufill ones self-interest. That's why when the Britain lost hist power as global hegemony, "British" capital's first thought was how to we protect our own interests, which was profit. That's why capitalists from the UK look to the US, where they give lip service to patriotism only as long as that patriotism allows them to become wealthier too. Patriotism is for is for the non-owners of capital. Money has no tribe, or nationality in a global market place. That's the kind of capitalism ushered since 1979, since "British" capitalists grew envious of how the US got rich and stayed rich by using debt.
The US have grabbed the political and economic elites of all so called democratic countries. They are taken care of by the US and are happy to let their respective countries people stay oppressed. This is why democracy is important to US politicians in other countries.
Just have think here. British companies are now mostly owned by American private equities. But its not just British. Siemens, Schneider , Samsung Electronics and TSMC are now mostly owned by American financial corporations. America can just print money unrelentlessly and buy high tech foreign companies. Its amazing how smart the American strategy is and its very scary.
In 2000 George Monbiot published 'Captive State' about the corporate takeover of Britain in the first New Labour parliament. 24 years later plus ca change.
Thatcher introduced monetarism from the USA and nationalisrd everything. On a practical level in the UK you pay forty times for your domestic water supply than I am currently paying in Greece. Likewise domestic water supplies in Australia are ten times lower than the UK. Nationalisation of utilities like water is the answer to this issue.
This is brilliant. You know, one thing that was omitted from the conversation which may be useful to speak about in the future is that the United States are trying to permanently exclude digital services from taxation in the WTO. India is the one resisting.
Such a wonderfully picturesque choice of words, to say that the UK economy is being _deeply and widely penetrated_ by a foreign power. I applaud Mr. Hanton.
@roro4787 I'd argue that on a practical level, they've got a political monopoly too. Remember what happens to any party, movement, or figure that steps out of line.
Try and get John Mearsheimer on to talk about Israel-Plaestine and wider foreign policy issues including east Asia, it would be great to hear him give a more detailed explanation for his views than the standard interviews
@@boota1979 spot on...which is why outside of London there are so many issues going on. If you remove London from the UK , the UK becomes a 2nd world country
Thank you Aaron the most interesting interview I have seen for a long time. It’s astonishing how far we have fallen and how our governments have failed to protect our economic interests. As an example of our failure to protect our interests. Regarding art, the failure of the museums and art galleries to charge entrance fees cannot help them keep our national treasures. The argument that it will affect tourism is ridiculous. I have travelled all over the world and never once was my own or anybody else’s decision affected by the price of entrance fee to see that country’s national treasures.
Well done Aaron such a brilliant interview and so enlightening,this situation needs to change and we have to keep more of our businesses at home and British owned
The problem is when our politicians are sold to the American lobby then we have no chance in developing our own industries, companies. The tax system drains British businesses to make room for American businesses. Fed up of the American government interfering in this country.
France has its issues too. Alstom being the prime example. But at least the sequence of events for Alstom (FCPA fine levied by the US, Alstom is effectively wiped out by the fine, GE with US gov support buy out Alstom despite minor protestations from Hollande) led to a major outcry in France, and continues (cf the work of European MP Eva Joly regarding the transfer pricing tactics used by GE to suck profits out of Alstom, reduce wages in France, and decimate all R&D in France).
That’s exactly what the US tried to do with Huawei by kidnapping the CFO, tried to forced them to sell , they did that to Alstom by locking up one of their executives on founded charges!
@@Ayinde65 I don't disagree with you, however, I see no connection between corporate sovereignty and legacy colonial behaviour. They are in my opinion entirely separate topics. But as I say I am not a big believer in France's residual colonial presence.
@@joebish6629 no, if you carefully read what i have written, that is not what i said. It worries me when confirmation biases become so entrenched that people start to read what they want to hear or think they heard, rather than what is actually written. Take things in turn (1) in relation to a video on the demise of corporate sovereignty and where french efforts to maintain ownership of key corporate actors are lauded by the presenters, i explain that France has issues too (Alstom), (2) another user tells me that francophone Africa and Pacific atolls have a problem with France, (3) I respond that i agree with them but that there is zero nexus in my mind between France's behaviour in its ex-colonies and the topic at hand, namely corporate sovereignty. I hope this helps clarify things. Now, if there is a nexus that I am missing I would love to hear about it but again I suspect that people are responding before reading, which is fast becoming a major problem online.
I don't agree with this idea of UK being being the 51st state of USA because if that were true you would get equal benefits of being a citizen of a country. It's more like UK becoming a US colony. Either UK should have policies independently implemented or become a 51st state for real.
What benefits do the average US citizens get from living in the US? Poverty, awful education, massive homelessness, gun crime, appalling health care system and an even worse 'democratic' system than ours.
The US would never agree to it for the same reason Puerto Rico isn't a state. Britain, like most of Europe, is too socialist/left. The Republicans will block it every single time. Same with PR.
I have been saying this for over ten years BREXIT was the USA's idea Many of those involved were intricately involved with the USA Boris, Farage, Sunak to name but three...
What an excellent webcast. So insightful. We have lost so many companies and so much control. All the British brands have gone and no new ones emerging. So much for global Britain.
fantastic talk and guest Novara Media, and i watch a lot of these, Judging Freedom, The Duran, Dialogue works, Cyrus Jansen, this talk was up their with the best of them !
The Huawei situation in particular is a complete joke. Our phone services seem to have really suffered since that infrastructure was removed, and all to keep the US from throwing its toys out of its pram! Pathetic.
All ISPs were warned back in 2005 by a branch of the govt responsible for protecting the UKs critical national infrastructure and MI5 not to buy Huawei because of its back door ownership by the Chinese (I was at one of the events where they presented their case to us all). At the time they were extremely cheap so hence very attractive to build your core network with. Many (perhaps most) of the big players (I’ll let you guess which) simply ignored the warnings, bought from the Chinese and gave them almost total back door control to the UKs critical national infrastructure. I suspect that the later warning from the US was likely due to having solid intelligence from inside the CCP or they’d indeed reverse engineered the back doors. Snowden has shown what the US do to ensure they can spy on anyone from anywhere, why would we not think the Chinese are doing exactly the same?
@@koschmx No exactly the fact that it's not American, The UK government is not allowed to use it for anything. In fact, Brits can't even buy Huawei phone, so yes, America forces the UK to use American products
I love it when you present these essentially apolitical interviews which are simultaneously integral to our political system. Bravo once again young buck.
UK’s biggest arms manufacture BAE systems, (which also happens to be the largest manufacture of any industry in Britain), is dependent on purchases by US, and so, I think UK can’t say no to US, when they ask for help with going to wars. E.g in Middle East etc
@@vulpo Absolutely correct. As far as Ukraine, it was mostly setting the example, but in Lybia it was really asking for help when UK and the French ran out of air to ground missiles. Yugoslavia, don't remember how it went between the two special relationship countries (US and UK).
Outside of the EU? Nah, only maybe through a revolution that would espouse anti-Americanism, but that’s a hundred times more unlikely than Britain rejoining the EU or even the Customs Union
Yes but really thats all smoke and mirrors britain is more the one in charge they use usa so all the blame goes on them after ww2 thats what they decided to do or so alot say
As for Amazon. Jeff Bezos father worked for DARPA and Amazon was given to Bezos when he worked at D E Shaw a CIA connected investment firm as The Shop Of Everything. DARPA created Facebook, Google and the I Phone.
Here's an irony: for more than a decade, the Brexit movement has been preaching the idea of British independence from foreign political and economic influences, but none the major Brexiteers in the Right Wing media and in politics have ever said a word against the dominance of the UK economy by the USA. Why is that, one has to wonder! Here's another: Brexit would never have happened without the years of economic misery imposed on this country since the great depression of 2008... A global financial catastrophe whose epicentre wasn't Europe or Brussels, but Wall Street. The Brexit crowd lost no time in blaming it's consequences on to principal scapegoats - the EU, and immigrants.
As an African Im always stunned when a British person wants to talk my ear off about how China is supposedly doing "neo colonialism" in Africa. When these same individuals dont seem to mind the American colonization of the UK lol. Or the fact that the UK is a vassal state of the US. There is no African country that is controlled by, takes orders from, or is submissive and subservient to China at any level comparable to the UK in all those ways that the UK is to America. No African country is sending their militaries to help China invade, bomb and occupy other countries as the UK does for America (there appears to be no BS war the Brits won't get involved with now to please their boss). Of course it helps that China isn't doing any of that.
It seems odd that in this discussion no mention is made of China, although i accept that this is meant as a strictly Western discussion
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Excellent observation, but it’s about money, those with wealth seeking control everywhere and it matters not that they are one side or the other
Putting these two things together lol good try. China is building infrastructure of course they can’t control that. People call it neocolonialism because you might not be able to pay it back. They made Sri Lanka give them a port because they couldn’t pay on time.
@@sparks1792 That Sri Lankan issue has been debunked. Look up Hussein Askary. He explains it.
This is not only a UK problem. Most of Western EU has been "vassalized". Some countries, such as Germany and Italy, are literally colonies where nothing moves without US approval.
100% AGREE.
Aviano, Sigonella, Ramstein...etcetera. More questions?
you forget france
@@damepipiTV-uw3qfNot so much for France tbh, the french could actually break away from American imperialism if they actually wanted to. Much harder for the UK and Germany to do that
Exactly. Early on in the book he has a swipe at Trump and Brexit, so you have to question his partisanship.
From colonizers to colonized. The British have made a career...
Britain was colonised 2000 years ago and occupied for 367 years by the Roman Empire.
Do you even know this?
@@jamiecartwright5469Britain didn't exist in those times. It was a different period with different people and a different language.
I was just fixing to say the same thing
Why don’t you just apply for statehood?
The parents always move in with the kids
Working for a US company means you will get daily emails telling you how much they love and value you, all the while planning to outsource your department to Bangaluru.
I remember reading that the country in which "Bangaluru" is will cease to exist. Or such was the claim of Winston Churchill in the late 1940s. He also thought Pakistan would be a great partner and a strong nation, UK's legacy in that region. Now UK will become Pakistan the way they are taking over. Hilarious to see how it all is turning out. Karma.
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Bhai ko "Bengaluru" ka spelling bhi nahi aata 😂
@@D_402S-h2z Bhai ko pronouns poochke dekh. 1000 pronouns ginaega.
That is how capitalism works... looking for profit for its investors.
We as British people need to rise against American influence in our country
100% agree.
Start with an embargo on Macdonalds coca cola KFC and all american companies,american films and media
@@peterivory2037 we don’t need anything American we are British that’s enough for us
Start by chucking Islam out.
@@DhadirMohamed-q2x Lols. The US owns the UK corporations.
This issue is never given the importance it deserves. Thank you for doing this interview!
How can your comment be from 2 days ago if this interview is only going out live now?
@@mided2119 members early access maybe?? It's a preview, not a real time live broadcast,even though it says "live" in the corner
Totally agree 💯
It is the same in Canada.
@@mided2119because it goes as a scheduled broadcast and I have read the book already
Bought his book a few months ago. This guy has done a PHENOMENAL amount of research into this topic. I genuinely thought nobody would, as I'm sure many others did also.
Props to Angus Hanton, he's a true gem of a human being, empathy in tact in and fighting for justice in a lonely field.
He is wrong about British nuclear weapons.
One small ethnic group runs the United States. Ruling the world has always been their goal.
How is he wrong?@@Mulberry2000
Just working for a US company in UK makes me feel sad about American and British people enslaved by corporations.
wonder why
Then offer your resignation and return home?
@@philipcurnow7990 Well, I live in UK...that is my home. My industry is ruled by US corporations, if I resign, I can join another...
@@philipcurnow7990 Whoosh!
@@hond654 Lol. Bit sneaky, but the most effective answer you could give ;)
Interesting Britain worrying about being foreign /American owned. In South Africa we worry about much of our mineral profits going to London. Can't take your own medicine now can you.
Are you really naive enough to think that London is controlled by the English? 🤭
Lol, I left the UK for Japan years ago, and basically just swapped one US vassal state for another. Both large islands off the coast of continents. Unsinkable aircraft carriers basically. It's very sad.
Japan is a lot more capable than UK though. And is likely to break free of US orbit when the new world order forms during the period of this Cold War 2.0. UK will stay a vassal to USA for a LONG time.
100% AGREE J.U.K IS VASSAL STATE OF J.U.S.
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The UK is Airstrip One.
i think about this a lot. i so wish the US did not have such a stranglehold on the UK
Once upon time England hand a grip on more than a hundred countries. Time is the greatest equalizer and has put western chauvinism (at least the European kind) in its grave
No we don’t, it’s Izrahell that has a hold on both of us and the rest of the west.
Its all a lie its more the other way around thats the real truth america won a war but we still had far too much power sk they signed an agreement decided by our king and the pope thats what they say though israel has alot of power too some say its them that controls things through finance
@@Jazz-fg2dmThanks for your input! Wishing every citizen the world over a fair economy 😁
That's true. Britain had became American's vassal long ago.
Former Secretary of State for Business and Trade Vince Cable told but people were asleep.
Look up below.
" UK banned Huawei because US told us to: former minister "
Reading the comments I didn't know so many people were aware of the US influence in Britain. This has been a major concern of mine since the 90s
The 60s this an old trope. How's your internet usage!
@@JohnWilkinson-f4k sorry I missed the 60's on account of being born well after that decade.
Why throw a straw man in there? (internet usage)
Using a product or service is not comparable to corporate takeovers by US corporations.
YT simply won’t let me criticise this relationship how I wish, typical fake American freedom
@@Greg_Bright I share your frustration
You know something is wrong when Brits choose to watch soccer instead of football.
University fees. NHS privatisation. The rent crisis. Increasing obesity. Possibly chlorinated chickens. Julian Assange! This explains a lot!
As Noam Chomsky said "USA is the world's biggest terrorist nation".
imagine to not go university, use rent with friend... there many sorts of obseities i guess
Explains nothing, everything you mention are effects not causes, as is £3trillion national debt, bankrupt councils and illogical unscientific hegemony.
How true!
Yall need to find clarity quicker.
The Brits seem to be sleep walking into decline. I'm genuinely concerned about where my country of origin is going. Glad I left for America 40 years ago.
The UK never got hold of the fact that it actually lost WWII and it was occupied and colonized by the US, just like Germany, and the whole Empire and the Commonwealth became a toolbox for American hegemony to extend worlwide.
The EU managed to make Amazon pay taxes but the UK hasn’t
Er, Amazon won before the EU Court of Justice in Dec 2023 and avoided paying about $270 million in back taxes to the European Union.
That’s why Amazon have it’s most highest paying tech jobs in the uk. We are not taxing them 25% corp tax because they are giving us jobs in east London which are paying 45% income tax. The sheer number of these people I meet is crazy
@user-qi1jc1yn3o Bezos is nothing more than the modern day Carnegie, Vanderbilt etc, small fry in the grander scheme of things.
Because UK didn't want that ti happen
@@ferahsudenazulusoy4553 My comment which was far to well informed has vanished....
USA has a network of satellite states; UK, Canada, Germany, Japan, S Korea, Australia, Egypt, Pakistan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain etc
add Italy to the list
You can add Ireland
Just add the EU, they do the US’ bidding too.
Time to unite and break free from the devil.
Plus the Netherlands very powerful for a small country under US control.
This won't be discussed on the mainstream.We are the lacky of the US have been for many years.And where does all the money go, not in our housing infrastructure the railways the NHS you name it.4 million kids in poverty in the UK something to be proud off?
America is our biggest export market but the money isn't invested in the UK. It gets invested in America, they get our goods and their money is invested back into their country.
@@johnhume4346 It doesn't really get invested. It goes to the US capitalists.
While the US convinced the UK not to allow China to build high speed rail lines in the UK and the danger of using refrigerators and toaster ovens from China the US has systemically dismantled every major industry in the UK and replace it with an American company - including the defense industry that is responsible for making bombs, fighter jets, and other weapons as well as the computer systems that store important information about the UK’s military and its soldiers and citizens! But letting the US have such power over the UK is not a danger to the UK in any way, eh?
Boo gross capitalism so disgusting
the Americans saved your butt in the sec. world war and now they want their money back.
I was initially reluctant to start the video because of its length and time. But I'm so glad that I did!
The easy flow of conversation and the clear jargon-free discussion were so interesting. Almost feel that I've been walking blind all this time. I learnt so much.
Thank you!
I watch a lot of these videos and your conversation with Angus Hanton is one of the most illuminating, and disturbing, I have seen. Thank you so much.
It should read 'How the USA runs Europe'. It is not just Britain, it is Europe and so many other countries and it must stop. The rot is not just rotting but ruining all Vassal states, economically and morally.
It's Europe's own fault they didn't develop IT companies or invested enough in defense to not be vassals.
@@zuzanazuscinova5209 blame the victim, why don't you.
Japan Aussie New Zealand eu uk Saudi uae etc
@@view1stoh poor little weak Europe getting blamed 😢
@@zuzanazuscinova5209 Quatsch and nonsense
We’ve had Thatcherism since 1979 which serves the interests of the (mainly overseas) wealthy. The problem with Thatcherism is that you eventually run out of assets to sell to overseas investors so that they can rip off British consumers.
Well said!
That was not the idea behind Thatcherism, your conflating 2 different things.
If you lived through 70/80s and how terrible that was you would have voted conservative I guarantee. It’s funny how so many people talk about thatcher but did not live through the UK going to the INF with a begging bowl because Labour and the unions had bankrupted it.
Seriously, this guy said, with a straight face, “Thatcher would be horrified if she saw what’s happening right now”. Hard to take seriously at that point.
Also, the eventual outcome which is now glaringly apparent. Is that all those assets the state sold off are now used to extract rents from us. We are now a nation of slaves to foreign capital. We are as a nation being ground into dust by it. Can't see the point of having an armed forces. When a foreign power can openly walk in and buy us out for less time and effort than trying to invade. Our political class and media are totally compliant.
100% agree.
Australia is the 51st state how dare the UK steal our position 😂
Isnt it Ireland? A lot more US people identify as having roots in Ireland, and the US is basically propping up the Irish economy thru huge investments.
Ireland, by proximity, investment, and people identifying as Irish, looks like the best contender as the pseudo 51st state.
@@wafercrackerjack880the Irish are pretty independent with foreign policy and aren’t part of NATO but they are a vassal though vis-a-vis the EU
I'm afraid we are maybe closer to Puerto Rico, ruled by US but not a state.
@@wafercrackerjack880 he is talking about australia being influenced. You need to be more aware of the topic of discussion here
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I live in the potteries, as it used to be called, which used to employ nearly everyone in stoke on Trent. American companies could afford to buy the brands and have the product made in China. Even the brands that outsourced their own products couldn’t compete with American firms because they were able to get better prices because they could place larger orders. Thatcher and neoliberalism betrayed our country.
100% AGREE J.U.K IS VASSAL STATE OF J.U.S .
Arron keep smashing these interviews out mate! Never stop, this is content!
A very small group in America runs the UK and you aren't allowed to criticise them
Sounds familiar....huh?
@@marygarrapa3537 there's no reason to take what he said in that direction. It's about class, not race.
@@vardendelalol no it isn't, it's definitely related to ethnoreligion. If you are the right ethnoreligion and put yourself forward they will engineer your promotion into the higher economic classes.
You're right and wrong.
It is your class. And a certain group Z considers themselves the highest class of human being, with others not quite fully human. No't only do they work hard to get to the top, which I have no issue with. They work actively to control and or destroy others.
I did not believe that for a long time, but after 15 or 20 years of research it appears to be very true.
Does the name start with a J and end with a W?
I honestly think this is one of the most important issues in the UK right now. It's a risk to our democracy and to our well-being. We can not make meaningful change and have autonomy whilst this continues to happen. I have read the book and I am so happy this is finally getting the attention is needs.
this was a really good discussion, something that i didn't realise was talked about in public...it seems that unless we can completely change our system in the next few years, the tipping point will have been exceeded if it hasn't been already...i just wish this discussion was on the BBC along with other discussions of this nature, every night....not with politicians but with independent free minds such as these two gentlemen..
Agreed they have been leeching off Britain and it's technology and our country and overseas bases for far too long.The need to be kicked out.
Democracy? A two party farce is not Democracy. A uniparty fixed system. Not Democracy.
Really? What about mass migration into western countries?
Things won’t change, Keir Starmer is actually the security service’s choice for labour leader. He really was picked by them to run labour after the got rid of JC. They made sure you had a choice between the Tory govt & the Tory opposition.
Sadly, there are signs that Starmer was the security services' choice for head of the CPS as well.
He's also a member of the Trilateral Commission.
Amazing. Almost word for word you've written my point of view on our situation with America!
Is he part of Pilgrim Society
And that's why Reform has them running scared. They never counted on Trump winning in 2016 after all!
You can tell how the UK is becoming more and more ‘Americanised’ by how things like the school system has completely changed - we now have ‘high schools’, year 1 to year 11!? Instead of 1st year, 2nd year etc. oh yes and ‘proms’.
No infants, junior and secondary! Shops are slowly becoming ‘stores’ - Dates are now ‘June 10’ instead of 10th of June.
I find this ‘Americanisation’ really irritating!
The colonisation of our language!
@@Trylobytedon’t be fascist. Be inclusive!
I agree.
When did 'hack' creep into British English usage?? e.g 'Ten Hacks for doing....' the word is 'Tips' - 'Ten Tips for doing....'.!
Then there's different ways some British people pronounce the words now...for example: 'Schedule' - it's with a 'shhh', not a 'skkk'.
British way it looks when pronounced - 'Shed-jewel'
American way it looks when pronounced - 'Sked- dual'
...and let's not forget the more direct and ruder sounding: 'Can I get a coffee' (American way);
compared with: 'Can I have a coffee, please' (British way).
This one does irritate me. The way the word 'Please' is increasingly being dropped by alot of people now, when they're talking or asking for something. It's just so rude as far as I'm concerned.
Oh, and you compare things 'WITH' each other, not 'TO' each other.....e.g 'Compared with' ....... rather than 'Compared to'.
@@Abbale It's not being 'fascist', it's trying to protect British English from the increasing onslaught of American words, American expressions, other Americanisms, and the general 'Americanisation' of British English. This may not matter to you - but it matters to me..... aswell as tens of millions of other British people.
Btw, try using the word 'fascist' in the right context. This isn't it.
'front and cent(er)'.....yuck
This is the headline I never thought of seeing in a lifetime 😅
Are you joking. When US says bark and you always do
How shameful that British companies were put out of business in favor of American companies
agreed, i’m american and we do not benefit much - the elite and corporations grow fat while we struggle. I have changed my spending habits and support local small businesses as much as possible. Going back to school to help support my plan to open a clinic. maybe if more Britain’s start side hustles where they see a need and bring back vocational jobs and craftsmanship? it’s not easy but we need to do what we can where we can.
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Let the best win.
@@victors4333 yeah because thats whats happening, its all totally fair and above board out here 🙄 clown
It’s really depressing that this has happened, the worst being our national infrastructure particularly the NHS. I try to buy as much as I can from artisanal / independent British made companies or brands.
Yep and farage and his mates want an American insurance based NHS
But the US just wants to sell its goods to the NHS.
The problem isn't the Americans. It's our overall unpatriotic political and economic class. Every major socio-economic problem in the UK can be resolved if they show an ounce of concern but *they don't care*
Profit > People. It's infuriating 😡
Capitalism has 5 major pillars, and the first is Individualism as rational self-interest. Any groups are to be distrusted, unless they are a means to fufill ones self-interest. That's why when the Britain lost hist power as global hegemony, "British" capital's first thought was how to we protect our own interests, which was profit. That's why capitalists from the UK look to the US, where they give lip service to patriotism only as long as that patriotism allows them to become wealthier too. Patriotism is for is for the non-owners of capital. Money has no tribe, or nationality in a global market place. That's the kind of capitalism ushered since 1979, since "British" capitalists grew envious of how the US got rich and stayed rich by using debt.
Very clear, thank you for explaining the logic! 😁@@CuriousCrow-mp4cx
@@CuriousCrow-mp4cx Try going back to the money lenders....
That's the British ruling class, and the British public keep voting to keep them where they are.
The US have grabbed the political and economic elites of all so called democratic countries. They are taken care of by the US and are happy to let their respective countries people stay oppressed. This is why democracy is important to US politicians in other countries.
This is a profound and thought provoking interview. Thank you.
Just have think here. British companies are now mostly owned by American private equities. But its not just British. Siemens, Schneider , Samsung Electronics and TSMC are now mostly owned by American financial corporations. America can just print money unrelentlessly and buy high tech foreign companies. Its amazing how smart the American strategy is and its very scary.
Yes and it will lead to their downfall. They now can't pay back their debt and they will default on it
America owns Britain, and Israel owns them both.
@markcalzaverini And that's primarily what WWII was about. Everything we see is post WWII, when the baton was handed to America.
Such a small country-Israel-. How is that possible??
@@ferahsudenazulusoy4553 It has nothing to do with the country!
city of london own all 3
@@garyreid7865 You havent watched the video have you, either that or you know something we dont, please do share?
The medieval bridge analogy is another example of Yannis Varoufakis' Technofeudalism theory, no?
I thought so as well - brief segment on techno-feudalism from 55:50
@@UTubeISphere yes. I too picked up on it later in the piece.
Finally a super important topic is discussed. You guys put this to the country’s leadership. Thanks
Kind of ironic how the power balance has shifted historically, the big brother became the little brother.
Big brother will cease to exist. 200k migrants annually they are receiving. Majority not european
As an American, I love truth tellers, and this is a great guest selection!
UK is Americas aircraft carrier in the Europe
Exactly as George Orwell’s _Nineteen Eighty-Four_ designated us as Oceania’s “Airstrip One”.
I think the Germans will be annoyed with that statement
Do you mean the 2 aircraft carriers that don't even work properly? I don't think so pal!
@@thedon8772 Britain is itself the aircraft carrier for American armaments
@@thedon8772Actually has nothing to do with physical aircraft carriers. More to do with US bases in the UK.
Thatcher also took the decision not to invest in the potential for internet communications because she believed it was just a fad…
@morgo-km7bu how well that worked out for the people of this country that are still paying for the consequences of selling off the national services…
In 2000 George Monbiot published 'Captive State' about the corporate takeover of Britain in the first New Labour parliament. 24 years later plus ca change.
It should have been "Here’s How America Really Ruins Britain"
Thatcher introduced monetarism from the USA and nationalisrd everything.
On a practical level in the UK you pay forty times for your domestic water supply than I am currently paying in Greece.
Likewise domestic water supplies in Australia are ten times lower than the UK.
Nationalisation of utilities like water is the answer to this issue.
As someone born & still living in the United States, I can say that you should be terrified about being linked to our business culture & economy.
Thanks, but we already know. I despise your predatory capitalistic culture and permanent war-mongering mindset.
@@thadtuiol1717 "War-mongering mindset." Oh, the irony of those words coming from a British person. Hilarious.
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Many do here, too. But MSM and Corporate News controls the masses, just as it does in the UK AND EU.😮
@@thadtuiol1717 we learned it from the best 😉
You're not an American.
This is brilliant. You know, one thing that was omitted from the conversation which may be useful to speak about in the future is that the United States are trying to permanently exclude digital services from taxation in the WTO. India is the one resisting.
UK is the 51st State
All the world knows it and only the UK does not
@jasonbuksh2958 Wrong.
Is that not Hawaii.
No. Taiwan is the 51st, UK is the 53rd, (PR is the 52nd).
UK is the 51st state but without any representation!
Such a wonderfully picturesque choice of words, to say that the UK economy is being _deeply and widely penetrated_ by a foreign power. I applaud Mr. Hanton.
Absolutely fascinating, worrying, illuminating. I thought that I would skip this interview, I'm glad I didn't. Thank you NM
So the US is doing to us what we did to India.
And canada
Except they got their independence back - we won't get that chance.
Exactly!!! That’s capitalism, colonialism was just a primitive form of what capitalism is today.
Yes under the East India COMPANY
@roro4787 I'd argue that on a practical level, they've got a political monopoly too. Remember what happens to any party, movement, or figure that steps out of line.
Extremely informative conversation. Definitely getting this book! Thank you for this discussion.
Try and get John Mearsheimer on to talk about Israel-Plaestine and wider foreign policy issues including east Asia, it would be great to hear him give a more detailed explanation for his views than the standard interviews
Or Jeffrey Sachs
Brilliant discussion thank you both! 🙏
Amazing journalism, great interview!
Thank you Angus Hanton. Thank you Aaron.
Sold our souls insiders for USA
Also to the French,German,Dutch,swedes,India,Australia,and on and on
Lol
Not just the US, but also Saudi Arabia and India are also buying out or taking massive positions in UK companies. UK lacks organic growth.
@RugbyPass81 And the real centre of power is the City of London.
@@boota1979 spot on...which is why outside of London there are so many issues going on. If you remove London from the UK , the UK becomes a 2nd world country
@RugbyPass81I think that would qualify as a tax haven. No? 🤔
Thank you Aaron the most interesting interview I have seen for a long time. It’s astonishing how far we have fallen and how our governments have failed to protect our economic interests.
As an example of our failure to protect our interests. Regarding art, the failure of the museums and art galleries to charge entrance fees cannot help them keep our national treasures. The argument that it will affect tourism is ridiculous. I have travelled all over the world and never once was my own or anybody else’s decision affected by the price of entrance fee to see that country’s national treasures.
Well done Aaron such a brilliant interview and so enlightening,this situation needs to change and we have to keep more of our businesses at home and British owned
The problem is when our politicians are sold to the American lobby then we have no chance in developing our own industries, companies.
The tax system drains British businesses to make room for American businesses. Fed up of the American government interfering in this country.
But American polo Vivian are sold to AIPAC Israel lobbyist. So much so, every congressman and senator has a AIPAC represented.
I feel sick although grateful. This man openness your eyes, thank you both.
How does it feel to be conquered
@@tuckerbugeater Tel Aviv want more free money and ammo, get a move on, Yank.
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Pretty interesting conversation .
This is really chilling, thank you for bringing it to light
Are you slow? Everyone has known this for decades.
Angus Hanton, you are in a complete superior level, and league. I hope for proper interviews in the close time...Brilliant man
A really fascinating interview. Thank you.
France has its issues too. Alstom being the prime example. But at least the sequence of events for Alstom (FCPA fine levied by the US, Alstom is effectively wiped out by the fine, GE with US gov support buy out Alstom despite minor protestations from Hollande) led to a major outcry in France, and continues (cf the work of European MP Eva Joly regarding the transfer pricing tactics used by GE to suck profits out of Alstom, reduce wages in France, and decimate all R&D in France).
West Africa (and other colonies in the Pacific and West Indies) has its issues with France.
That’s exactly what the US tried to do with Huawei by kidnapping the CFO, tried to forced them to sell , they did that to Alstom by locking up one of their executives on founded charges!
@@Ayinde65 I don't disagree with you, however, I see no connection between corporate sovereignty and legacy colonial behaviour. They are in my opinion entirely separate topics. But as I say I am not a big believer in France's residual colonial presence.
@@juderyan1561 You really doubt France's residual colonial presence in its former colonies? Come on, get real.
@@joebish6629 no, if you carefully read what i have written, that is not what i said. It worries me when confirmation biases become so entrenched that people start to read what they want to hear or think they heard, rather than what is actually written. Take things in turn (1) in relation to a video on the demise of corporate sovereignty and where french efforts to maintain ownership of key corporate actors are lauded by the presenters, i explain that France has issues too (Alstom), (2) another user tells me that francophone Africa and Pacific atolls have a problem with France, (3) I respond that i agree with them but that there is zero nexus in my mind between France's behaviour in its ex-colonies and the topic at hand, namely corporate sovereignty. I hope this helps clarify things. Now, if there is a nexus that I am missing I would love to hear about it but again I suspect that people are responding before reading, which is fast becoming a major problem online.
I don't agree with this idea of UK being being the 51st state of USA because if that were true you would get equal benefits of being a citizen of a country.
It's more like UK becoming a US colony. Either UK should have policies independently implemented or become a 51st state for real.
What benefits do the average US citizens get from living in the US? Poverty, awful education, massive homelessness, gun crime, appalling health care system and an even worse 'democratic' system than ours.
The US would never agree to it for the same reason Puerto Rico isn't a state. Britain, like most of Europe, is too socialist/left. The Republicans will block it every single time. Same with PR.
This is a brilliant interview. I hope it gets a lot of exposure.
I have been saying this for over ten years BREXIT was the USA's idea Many of those involved were intricately involved with the USA Boris, Farage, Sunak to name but three...
What an excellent webcast. So insightful. We have lost so many companies and so much control. All the British brands have gone and no new ones emerging.
So much for global Britain.
Britain is not Global anymore
Real eye opener. Thank you both. Fascinating.
Brings to mind Yanis Varoufakis and his conception of technofeudalism.
55:50 onwards
fantastic talk and guest Novara Media, and i watch a lot of these, Judging Freedom, The Duran, Dialogue works, Cyrus Jansen, this talk was up their with the best of them !
The Huawei situation in particular is a complete joke. Our phone services seem to have really suffered since that infrastructure was removed, and all to keep the US from throwing its toys out of its pram! Pathetic.
All ISPs were warned back in 2005 by a branch of the govt responsible for protecting the UKs critical national infrastructure and MI5 not to buy Huawei because of its back door ownership by the Chinese (I was at one of the events where they presented their case to us all). At the time they were extremely cheap so hence very attractive to build your core network with. Many (perhaps most) of the big players (I’ll let you guess which) simply ignored the warnings, bought from the Chinese and gave them almost total back door control to the UKs critical national infrastructure. I suspect that the later warning from the US was likely due to having solid intelligence from inside the CCP or they’d indeed reverse engineered the back doors. Snowden has shown what the US do to ensure they can spy on anyone from anywhere, why would we not think the Chinese are doing exactly the same?
Thank you for such a smart knowledgeable and courageous guest
This is such a fastinating conversation!
I am only 8 minutes in, but this doesn’t seem to be a British thing is is a world thing.
As a Canadian, I couldn’t agree more. As i was listening, I felt like they may as well have been talking about Canada or so many other countries.
Not a world thing. It’s a European thing
@@worldwide8587Collective West.
@@koschmxdid the British have a choice on Huawei??
@@koschmx No exactly the fact that it's not American, The UK government is not allowed to use it for anything. In fact, Brits can't even buy Huawei phone, so yes, America forces the UK to use American products
I love it when you present these essentially apolitical interviews which are simultaneously integral to our political system. Bravo once again young buck.
We know. It’s very evident. There’s even talk of the UK becoming a US state! I guess Reform will facilitate that if they can.
UK’s biggest arms manufacture BAE systems, (which also happens to be the largest manufacture of any industry in Britain), is dependent on purchases by US, and so, I think UK can’t say no to US, when they ask for help with going to wars. E.g in Middle East etc
But in many cases, it seems, it is the British asking the Americans to come in: Libya, Bosnia, Serbia, Ukraine.
I've seen an interview by an US government official, describe the war in Ukraine as a proxy war.
@@itseveryday8600 that's the blunt truth hahaha
@@vulpo Absolutely correct. As far as Ukraine, it was mostly setting the example, but in Lybia it was really asking for help when UK and the French ran out of air to ground missiles. Yugoslavia, don't remember how it went between the two special relationship countries (US and UK).
Riveting interview, thanks to you both and well done novara media
can we put a stop to this
@michael954 No, because we are in it up to our necks, just looking at the American presidential bloodlines and that answers the question.
Outside of the EU? Nah, only maybe through a revolution that would espouse anti-Americanism, but that’s a hundred times more unlikely than Britain rejoining the EU or even the Customs Union
My comments are clearly far to close to the real truth...Thus they are removed!
Nope
The US will not let you. Can you fight them?
I wish everyone in the country could know this information.
Great conversation to listen in on.
When America gets involved in something UK have to be there
Yes but really thats all smoke and mirrors britain is more the one in charge they use usa so all the blame goes on them after ww2 thats what they decided to do or so alot say
@lilianandersonmayne4968 And that's why it's the Anglo/American Empire...
As the saying goes "Birds of a feather flock together"
and you willingly go like sheep. ba ba ba
We have to do as we're told, like good little poodles.
Very interesting, and also fantastically depressing 😢
Fantastic interview!
I usually add silly comments but this was a very interesting interview and should be a concern to all of us- left or right persuasion
Very good guest, straight into it.
Spot on ...95% of british public are clueless.
As for Amazon. Jeff Bezos father worked for DARPA and Amazon was given to Bezos when he worked at D E Shaw a CIA connected investment firm as The Shop Of Everything. DARPA created Facebook, Google and the I Phone.
So those billion dollar companies can be created without the founders ?
and the real reason we have to keep it under wraps is simply to maintain the illusion that "capitalism drives innovation" or whatever
@@Cheesecake99YearsAgo how else are they going to use publically funded r&d to turn a profit?
Wow
Great interview, learnt a lot.
Superb convo, very educational, thankyou!
This is an eye opener.
OH THE IRONY! We're getting WTF-PWNED by our former colony! It'd be hilarious if I didn't live here.....
A classic case of a prince overthrowing his father, the king.
@@view1st It is, actually! Nicely said!
What goes around.
It's what you get for taxing us to death and trying to take our guns.
Funny, when first saw the headline of this video I read "How America Really Ruins Britain"
Yeah, me too
Equally too. But tell me again how it's Muslims taking over .....🙄
Same same
Here's an irony: for more than a decade, the Brexit movement has been preaching the idea of British independence from foreign political and economic influences, but none the major Brexiteers in the Right Wing media and in politics have ever said a word against the dominance of the UK economy by the USA. Why is that, one has to wonder!
Here's another: Brexit would never have happened without the years of economic misery imposed on this country since the great depression of 2008... A global financial catastrophe whose epicentre wasn't Europe or Brussels, but Wall Street. The Brexit crowd lost no time in blaming it's consequences on to principal scapegoats - the EU, and immigrants.
You're labouring under the delusion that he EU isn't ALSO a vassal supranational state of the good old USA. lol. Man, look around.
Right on the money....literaly
Right on the money....literaly
Right on the money....literaly
2008 was not a depression in any way.
Gripping. Brilliant.
Great Interview
Great Conversation.
Economic, social and political analysis.
Angus Hanton
Superb scholarly guest
A revelation
Thank you
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