In Hindsight getting sent to Australia for stealing a loaf of bread was not really a punishment.

A perfectly balanced legal system with no exploits indeed...

You guys built a wholeass UNDERSEA TUNNEL TO FRANCE in 1986, and now struggle to build a 3 mile subway under the Thames. What is going on?

Are we not going to talk about how it takes £10,000 to paint a bit of cement black and white to look like a chess board apparently

"UK is just a 3rd world country attached to London" 2019

optimistic British man made a very negative video. we're fucked

I'm Hungarian, I used to live in the UK between 2014 and 2019. I have worked in IT, had a salary of 40K my wife made 35K. We have decided to move back to Hungary after Brexit because the atmosphere became too toxic + it is easier to raise kids and buy a home here than in London. Now in 2024 we have our own newly built 3 bedroom semi-detached house, mortgage is around 380 GBP per month. (We own two paid off cars 5+10 y.o.). Both our kids are now in private education and will be able to go to university for free. Everybody I know from all around Europe (Poles, Romanians, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Slovaks) have left the UK and moved back home with kids. I'm so sad it has came to this, we loved the UK and wanted to live there forever, not because of the money but because of how good the country is and how nice the people are. It breaks my heart to see how the British society is erroding.

as an American, seeing the state of Britain right now is like seeing your alcoholic dad's mugshot in the newspaper

Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are on a plane, Sunak looked at Starmer, chuckled, and said, "You know, I could throw £1,000 out of the window right now and make somebody happy." Starmer shrugged his shoulders and replied, "I could throw twenty £50 notes out of the window and make twenty people happy." Hearing their exchange, the pilot said to his co-pilot, I could throw both of them out of the window and make 64 million people happy!"

"Green party opposes green energy" It really is clown world

I am surprised that the UK can have so many authoritarian & surveillance laws, and is still completely incapable of putting away the people those laws were intended to stop.

Britain's fundamental issue is its class system. The upper class keep themselves in power. The upper class don't live in a post-industrial wasteland. The upper class don't worry about trains or such. They don't have any good sense of business fundamentals. Too many people in Britain want to keep things as they've "always been." Britain is a football team that was once great, and they're clinging to the old players and the old strategies after the game has passed them by. And it won't be fixed until it hits rock bottom.

My guy has officially convinced me the UK is the worst developed country in the world

"Britain may be the first country in history to impose sanctions on itself" - James o'Brien

I love Tokyo. I live in Tokyo. Please don't ever adopt planning rules like Tokyo. It is the only place in Japan that operates with such awful planning laws and everyone hates it. It's hideous. No one has enough space. The roads are a joke. The lack of green space is shocking. It's too hot because of all the concrete. The local politicians keep trying to hack up one of Tokyo's only parks to build another bloody shopping centre and there actually isn't much anyone can do to stop them precisely because the rules suck. The list of problems is pretty long (don't get me started on the awful build quality of homes out here). Japan and Tokyo have lots of good qualities, like the transport and the walkable neighbourhoods full of useful stuff, but you really don't want to build like the Japanese, especially not like Tokyo. Do not be the UK and do not be Japan. They are opposite ends of a bad spectrum.

As a british person, watching this whole video, sad to say, if you are able to leave the UK, then leave

Eastern european here. 2023 was the first year since the collapse of the soviet union that more people returned from UK than immigrated away to it. I don't think Covid is the (only) reason

Man even as a non British person this is infuriating to watch, what a joke of a government.

I remember being in a lecture hall with lots of British 18 year olds. I was one of the only foreigners. The topic was Criminology. Most of them wanted to send children (very small children) to prison. It was clear I didn't belong.

I'm an expat Brit & have spent most of my adult life living & working in other countries. From time to time, in btw my travels & work postings I pop back into the UK for months at a time. Everytime I visit & venture beyond my zone 1 home, I'm always shocked at the decline & deterioration across the city. Lovely boroughs & high streets of my 20s are decrepit wastelands of rundown terraces, boarded up shops & sad dingy pubs. Driving down Finchley Rd, a once prosperous thoroughfare of elegant flats, high end shops, luxury car dealerships, I was shocked at how changed it was. Even my own local once world famous "high street", Oxford St is a shadow of itself with all the shops & dept stores of my youth now closed & empty. Most tellingly, my kids who didn't grow up in the UK, have lived in awesome cities from Singapore to Cape Town & so have an objectivity I lack, think London is a truly awful place and don't understand my lingering attachment to Britain. They hate the UK, describing it as miserable, depressing, cramped, rundown, ridiculously poor value for money, dirty & full of tired, sad, beat up looking people. They're both planning to go to US universities with zero interest in life in the UK

HOLY FUCK, I DIDNT KNOW IT WAS THAT BAD?? I (a czech citizen) have just visited England a few months back, and the whole time I was thinking: damn, do these guys just not have public infrastructure? Like why is there such a lack of benches, litter bins and people? I had no clue a former superpower and a modern western nation has people dying of malnutrition. Thats just.... mad. I litteraly live a post-socialist country and we are doing good, even with the prices of everything rising (fucking kleptocratic polititians and corpo-bastards). Damn Britain, you really fell from grace...

The usual joke goes the UK is a former world power. At this point the UK might become a former first world country.

YOU DID IT YOU FUCKING DID IT LABOUR PARTY LANDSLIDE

Its bit of a scandal, what happened to Britain. Same ting is happened to Sweden. Many voted for decades the social demokrats. Only a couple of times, Sweden voted on the right. Here is a list of Sweden's delighted corruption: * All politicians can only need to serve the parliament for 4 years, to get paid for life. * Former PM Göran Persson, an social democrat. He is now a CEO for Swedbank. And he still gets PM salary, even he don't work for the government anymore.

I'm American and I am angry, and I don't even live in Britain. Your future as a nation has been stolen, ripped from your hands. And I honestly hope the youth take their country back from those who don't deserve it anymore.

I'm french and i'm mad right now... If the UK goes to shit, who am I supposed to dunk on? There's no flavour anymore

The Conservative's record in offic e.. 1. Highest energy bills in Europe, 2. Highest taxes in 70 years. 3. Highest interest rates since 2008. 4. Highest train fares in Europe. 5. Longest waiting lists in NHS history. 6. Raw sewage pumped into rivers. 7. Lowest corporate taxes in 50 years 8. Lowest State Pension in Europe. 9. Highest Immigration both legal and illegal ever. 10. Destroyed the NHS dentist service. 11.Brexit. 12. One failed Prime Minister after another. 13. Worlds shortest in post Prime Minister which created a financial disaster. 14. More corrupt MP's than any other party in parliament. 15. Europe's longest Austerity for the lower paid 16. Highest Council Tax rates in the World 17. Reduced our Armed Forces more than any other G8 country. 18. Highest number of MP's that have been arrested for sexual offences 19. Highest number of MP's that have been sacked for corruption and Fraudulent acts. 20. Voted to allow Bankers to have unlimited bonus's even though the bankers caused the crash of 2008. 21. More libraries closed due to council cuts than any other modern country. 22. Ruined and destroyed the Train services by giving private companies tax payers money as subsidies. 23. Voted against Labours creation of the minimum wage. 24. Wasted billions of Tax payers money on crony PPE contracts for their friends and other Tory donors 25. Sold off 600 Police Stations. 26. Sold off our Courthouses 27. Closed then sold our Fire Stations. 28, Failed to fix - repair our schools 29. Cut spending on youth services 30. Court backlog is at record levels 31. Threw 30,000 pensioners to the wolves during the first wave of the pandemic. 32. Sold off our electrical grid to foreign companies 33. Failed to build new affordable homes 34. Wasted billions on HS2 35. Failed to close Tax Loopholes 36. Failed to build 40 new hospitals, 37. Failed to repair our crumbling roads.

I moved to Australia from th UK 10 years ago and I can say with certainty a few things 1. The UK is borderline a 3rd world country. People accept the norm in the UK for what it is, but its not normal, its poverty. 2. There is Rubbish everywhere, the sign of dying nation. They can even find the money to maintain thier roads and rubbish collection 3. Houses are rediculously expensive in relation to wages, owneing a house is pipe dream for many. Or at least you wont be albe to do it until you are 40 + 3. The media in the UK is the UK's largest threat to democracy. - I have seen with my own eyes , family members fall for the BBC propaganda around elections and wars, misinforming the population so much they are effecitvly neutralised from voting for what will benefit them. 4. The UK will never get any better. Our golden era was 1850 - 1960's. The UK has minimal natural resources and no manufacturing anymore. This is because the policiticans sold out the people of the UK and sent all these jobs to China with promise of higher profits due to lower wage demands. Unfortunatlry the UK i knew and loved is gone, and it will never return. I just try now to position my kids in a better country and position for the future. All western countries are on the decline. I belive Asia is the next place to experience a wealth boom.

Britian is so bad that Northern Ireland joining Ireland sounds like they're being rescued from a burning collapsing building

i remember as a Lithuanian in my family were in a transit trip through Britain in 2017 during Brexit- my dad got "interrogated" by some form of border officer who asked him "Are you planning to sneak in to the country?" He said "In a few years, you'll be begging us to sneak in to our country!" I laughed back then. but now it's honestly sad to see how bad it went

This hour and a half broke my heart… I’m American, I’ve been to the UK. I love the UK and its people and I always have. If it’s any consolation, we’re in the doldrums as well… Our special relationship is becoming like two crackheads who destroy themselves together…

Wow learning that politicians in England are as cruel as the ones here in the US is eye opening. Just OPENLY taking from the poor and giving to the affluent 😮

"The UK being a Bulgaria attached to a Hedge fund in London" Hey but what did Bulgaria deserve to be insulted like this?

It's 2030, and droves of Brits head to Poland and Romania to clean toilets and pick potatoes. Scrub scrub!

That closing was eerie.. as a person watching from one of Britain's former colonies and currently doing better than Britain, it actually aches my heart to see such a deflating video from such a young person.. wish Britain a better future than seen in the last 20 years!

There you have it! Hopefully the change in leadership brings about some fresh, necessary change

"hey lets cut funds from policing, medical services, local councils, schools, housing & public transport, then spend an ungodly amount of money on half a train line, leave the largest economic area on earth, funnel money into an African country criticized for its human rights violations, arbitrarily limit what can be built or who can become a doctor" "Why is the country going to shit & why does everyone hate my political party?"

Something to add to the story of MF DOOM's time at the hospital before his death, his wife had added that "he had been unable to alert medical staff to his deteriorating condition as his 'buzzer' was out of reach", as well as "he had been placed in a room containing an 'old metal desk' and books, saying the room appeared to be 'a hospital room a very long time ago' ". She also said that he literally collapsed after struggling to breathe and trying to get out of his bed after complaining (can't give exact word because the source LeedsLive is a pain in the ass to use). It's grim how quickly they destroyed his entire life due to the incompetence of the government.

I can tell you that you should really read up about private healthcare in Sweden. It's extremely hated here and debated about if we should abolish it again. Horrible, degrading service while the CEOs taking massive salary increase while underpaying all their staff. And leeching massive amount of tax monies from the local and state government while providing nothing better than the state run hospitals. Along with, ofc, the massive scandals involving the healthcare industry and actors siphoning money out of it

"We are literally paying to train other countries' doctors and nurses" Yeah, welcome to the second world, buddy. I'm sure all Eastern Europeans can relate.

I'm German and even I am horrified by the bureaucratic mess the UK made.

As a Canadian, a lot of this sounded strangely familiar

Will be sending this video now on to those proud Britishers going around calling other countries " shitholes".

I'm the first of my entire family to ever pass more than 2 GCSEs, passed my A-Levels, when to University of Sussex to study Physics. Thought I'd just about managed to break the poverty cycle. December of first year, after house hunting non stop since freshers week, I couldn't afford a piss-stained, mould-infested cupboard with a maintenance loan and working 25+ hours a week. Was forced to drop out and move back home, and it's not just me. A lot of my school mates all went to uni together, and every single one of them - barring 2 (from high income families who could afford to subsidise them) - have dropped out one by one. I-m now earning £8 an hour and I feel lucky cos it took me 5 months to find a job. Honestly don't know how long the young people of this country are going to just sit back and get fucked over and over again before shit really hits the fan.

My guy dropped a hour and a half long video explaining that Britain is dump when all he had to do was post a 20 second video of Birmingham

The amount of work and editing is incredible. Kudos to you for your service

Greens opposing green energy makes me go insane holy hell

As a non-Brit, its crazy how a party turned one of the wealthiest nations into a effing retirement home. wtf.

Despite the conservatives being the center of the video, I like how BritMonkey still criticizes the rest of the UK parties for putting Britain in the sorry state it's in

I dont understand why easing planning regulations and encouraging private sector has to go hand in hand. Why cant the government plan and construct more housing, more high street facilities, more public transport etc.

The state of our renewable energy generation makes me angry. It's not ridiculous to suggest that the money spent on onshore wind would be better spent on tidal and nuclear but for the greens to throw their toys out of the pram and oppose everything when both the tories and Labour suggest new projects is crazy

I once saw someone say "if you don't pay attention to the news, your life becomes happier" yet it's impossible to avoid it when you can't leave your house without bearing witness to the crimes against humanity committed by the Conservatives. You can't even stay INSIDE your house, because it's impossible to afford one.

As an Argentine, I feel no happiness when i look at Britain rotting like it is. It's a shame your government is actively doing the worst possible things to ruin your economy and i hope it can change soon.

I am in the US and know two Brits who came here in recent years to startup a business, which has worked out well for them. It's a type of business that could really be done from almost anywhere that has great connections to the internet. They said they didn't stay in the UK because it was next to impossible to start up there.

As a Bulgarian the "London stapled to Bulgaria" joke was hilarious to think about.

British people love Monty Python so much they turned their political landscape into a sketch. A silly walk towards ruin

This really furthers the theory that the rest of the world was fine in Children of Men and Britain was just like that

The US healthcare system is definitely worse(despite all factors mentioned), I do not agree with this point. Also, you can't trust Russian statistics at all. They stopped releasing macroeconomic data after start of the war. Even before, it was not precise, more of a general guideline, because of the high levels of corruption. Otherwise, a good video. One example is the number of potholes on the roads which is a lot more noticeable compared to 10 years ago. Labour just won. There will be some life improvements or, at least no decline in living standards for a couple of years. Hopefully there will be some social care improvements but who knows? It is too hard for most people top comprehend that the Tories do not represent their interests, and their wealth is slowly syphoned away from them.

THE TORIES ARE OUT OF OFFICE 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

THIS is what actual patriotism looks like. Offering concrete, constructive criticism, instead of jingoism and appeal to nostalgia, a.k.a burying one’s head in the sand

"They shoved all the funding into deprived areas and that needed to be undone" what the fuck. Deprived of what, funding?

Update on the election: Ding dong, Rees-Mogg is gone And it seems there is no trust for Truss in the British public. Guys, I'm happy to see that you're getting better. From across the North Sea, I hope that you will rejoin us in the EU soon enough. Y'all have so much potential, and I cannot wait to see you prosper along with the rest of the world.

Uh Oh! Looks like the United Kingdom is neither United, nor a Kingdom anymore!

As a French dude, I can't even rejoice my sworn enemies are in trouble... This all is just shocking

UK tories are literally that one Ronald Reagan meme: HEY LIBERALS *triples national debt*

Brilliant. This should have been broadcast at prime time on all British tv channels prior to the general election.

All the old telephone boxes in my country have become free book boxes. You leave and take books, and a local librarian looks after it 😊

I was working in the NHS in 2016 and the communication system collapsed because a generic email was sent out and someone pressed 'reply all' and a ton of people responded to them telling them they had pressed 'reply all' and it crashed the email system for 3 days

Whenever a KZfaqr leaves for a considerable period of time, you either get a good ending where they have been working on a massive project and make a glorious return, or you get the bad ending where you never hear from them again. Today my friends, we got the good ending.

As a swede the privatesation of hospitals have been really bad for the nation. Its more expensive and you can have a waiting time on 2 years.

Well put together video essay, very informative

you bet im gonna watch a 90-minute video essay

The national service is the most outrageous policy proposal ever. Young people are treated like cattle in the UK.

Incredibly well researched. Blew my socks off and confirmed what so many of us know the UK is in deep shit. I emigrated in the1980's as a 23 year old to Scandinavia, Denmark, now Sweden. I left an affluent town in the South East that had no need of foodbanks: now it has two! Good job Micheal!

Now is a good time to invest in spray can companies. Those apocalyptic end times graffitis won't spray themselves.

‘Yes. But it’d be much worse under Labour’: my 65 year old parents the day they came within hours of losing a huge chunk of their pensions thanks to Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng doing their ‘wreck the economy speedrun’.

We’ve gone from “is Britain really as poor as Mississippi” to “is Mississippi really as poor as Britain?”

The more I watch your video the more I think UK has some weird modern feudalism system

I find it both depressing and hilarious that Britain has this massive surveliance system yet can't even bother to find someone's stolen smart phone.

“I started undoing the funding to deprived urban areas.” The Tories are barely human at this point

Oh yeah, the Brits have _that kind_ of "green party". I had already forgotten and was rather happy in that state...

I remember seeing a reddit post about a British family getting a new home there was a squatter there who was apparently related to the previous owner when they asked him to leave he said no and when they called the police they said they couldn’t do anything and advised the British couple to not use any force and to wait until a further date for any action to be taken due to the British laws one comment said “why don’t you just open carry and warn lethal force?” So at the time I laughed and moved on but this video made me realize just how far down these corrupt laws trickle and I also feel a lot better about the US health care system even if it still sucks

"We live in a retirement home" fucking nailed it my friend. This cuts so close to the truth it hurts

binging britmonkey content is the literal definition of "it's so over" followed by "we're so back"

The NHS part hit hard for me, my grandad is anemic, we learnt this a few months ago when he was rushed to hospital because it got so bad. Saturday morning I visit the hospital for the first time, and get info on his condition, they don't know what happened but they mention his blood pressure hasn't stopped soaring upward, the same story the day after, it was INSANELY high, he wasn't doing well. Luckily my uncle had noticed that no one had given my grandad any of his regular medication, they had it, but the doctor, who was off for the weekend, was apparently the only one who was able to readministor his medicine? after a back and forth, one of the nurses were able to get him his BLOOD PRESSURE medicine, he might have died that night had me and my uncle not advocated for him. The fact that he would have been safer at home is insane.

I'm afraid the rest of Europe is facing some of the same problems of Britain. The affordability of housing for the young, for instance.

That instrumental version of Britney Spears' "Toxic" over the Conservatives' corruption links (1:07:25) explanation was a subtle but very nice touch! 👌

This makes it feel like the Brexit was a way to make it harder for young people to flee to EU states.

The Tories didn’t forget that there are people on the other side of those spreadsheets. They simply *do not care.*

1:05:30 I'm happy to say that this muppet lost his seat in the recent election by about 6k votes.

I'm only halfway through the video, but as an American, it is kind of funny that the no Smoking Inside bill has caused a slippery slope of trying to ban other things. Here in the US, smoking inside is banned because of second and smoke and health concerns but no one here is really trying to ban other things.

What a coincidence, I just watched a video of a 9 year old British girl ranting about the price of ice cream, and then my favorite British man comes back to his channel ranting about Brits

So basically the UK is run by the HOA no wonder why you can't get any development done. I worked on a development next to an established HOA and I was harassed by them for just having survey equipment out to make measurements

SO well made. So much detail - who does all your research? And that end song is great.

I was in hospital a long time ago with a life threatening illness, the nurse told me when I was about to leave after 3 months in hospital that it cost the NHS about £110 thousand for my treatment.Not only did they save my life, it was all for free.

I feel like in Britain you’d get in more trouble if you hurt someone trying to murder you than the person trying to murder you.

My son has sickle cell disease and comes with a crisis. I called the ambulance because it was an emergency and he needed fluids put into him ASAP to stop the pain getting worse but was told by ambulance that I needed to wait 20mins for the ambulance to arrive. They expected me to wait 20mins with a 2 year old in crisis. I took a taxi and we were in hospital less than 10mins and my son was seen immediately because when the crisis starts it's go go go. We're slowly losing our health system because of greedy politicians who care more about their pockets and Ego boost than actual human beings in need. Their lack of empathy speaks volumes

GB really went from a world power to barely a country

Lmao, the footage in the first 2 mins is my hometown, funny thing is theres a fairly successful grassroots run club/venue just down the road from that kingsize tobacco shop, which is also still running. The old bank in the first shot is however abandoned, and has been as long as I can remember. Its funny how abit of graffiti gets put up and the place is labelled derelict (by the gaurdian atleast), when in reality the building has still got life in it.

Watching this as a Romanian is so strange. It's like you guys are going through what Eastern European countries went through in the 90s up until we joined the EU. We're not rich by any means, but at least we've had quite significant improvements over the last years. Good luck to you guys, hope you'll manage to figure things out!