Better to get closer to fellow anglo saxons and former colonies than closer competing powers like france and germany.

@@Tonius126 German Americans are the majority in the US lmao

@@laurent3760 no there definitely not. Most British Americans ancestors have been in the country for so long that they choose to identify as American rather than British. While people with parents who have only just immigrated are more likely to identify with there parents ethnicity. Also Brits are literally a mix of Celtic and Germanic people, which are the other 2 largest ethnic groups (Ireland and Germany). 44/46 US Presidents are ethnically British (and if we include all of the British isles) 45/46. The only president who wasn’t was Martin Van Buren whose the USA’s 8th president, he was Dutch (which makes him Germanic). Ethnicity has hardly anything to do with our relationship anymore anyway, we literally watch the same shows, listen to the same music and play the same games. The hole Anglo sphere is United by culture and language, if everyone in the U.K. looked black and everyone in the USA Asian we’d still be extremely close. Millions of Brits are friends with Americans, the same can not be said about the French who are only 20 miles away.

@@laurent3760 America is not german, it's culture is founded in anglo saxon foundation.

@@Tonius126 no need to make this an ethnic nationalism thing here.

"I'm a fighter, not a quitter !!"

Isn't it funny how she spoke about lowering taxes and reversing green energy policies and then suddenly the entire British political class turned on her and kicked her out to put a literal Banker on the job without a election?

@@l0lLorenzol0l Without an election? Do you even look at British politics? Sunak was the runner-up to PM bro. I don't think the conservatives choosing the next most suitable candidate after the one that got in resigned makes us a dictatorship or something, especially when the alternative is waiting another month or two for another election to go through. Its just logical man.

@@schwoondoggle pretty sure he was elected by the Tory party tho. Not sure on that one.

@@maxdavis7722 So was Liz Truss. It was something to do with Boris' resignation, I don't know the details though.

More like an elderly father who lost everything and is trying to move back into his more successful sons.

@@Web720 if being successful means a white minority soon to become another South America state

@@Web720 A father with severe brain damage moving in with his extremely rich and violent eldest son

He couldn't take it at the old folks home anymore but he doesn't have anywhere else to go.

@@Web720More like an pair of elderly fathers with one just wanting to retire and the other trying to get back on track and in shape and the retirement guy won a game of rock paper scissors which decides their shared fates.

They aren't always national animals (the UK's is a lion, and not all nations have officially designated national animals and plants). Its still a lot more creative and distinctive than countryballs. (And lends itself to better visual gags like the UK Bulldog in an infantry helmet riding on the back of the American Bison in an infantry helmet, or the bone sticking out of the greek dolphin.)

@@jasonreed7522 i would love to see someone create an animated series representing countries with their national animals

I feel that a bison represents America better. We are strong and resilient. Bison are more powerful together and they could stand for a united country.

@@turtlepaladin4750 Yeah a Bison is much better. Eagles are overrated and kinda german tbh.

@@FreckleShark Eagles being overrated I get but like, German? Why are eagles German?

The US had those in 2001 too

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It just makes sense, and once people figured out that water going over the top of the wheel = more power than water going under it, whoa--things got *lit.*

Wow spiny thing go burrrrr

that explains the peasants revolt

Still wonder why rivers arn't just covered in the things... there good for power generation.

Haha, now we are all in danger...oh wait..shit

even more so now

Oh boy

Your currency is so overvalued nobody is going to buy your cotton because they are so expensive.

@@harukrentz435 It wasn’t long ago when the purge off mills happened. Only in the 50s.

@@FreddieHowe2806 Yeh when the Empire collapsed and we couldn't exploit the colonies anymore. The cotton industry isn't coming back. Coal should though - its not like we are cutting back on using it.

Similar situation in my town in Cornwall. In the 1800's and 1900's it was a tin mining town. But since the closing of the last of the mines in the 1990's it has huge areas of land with bare concrete and abandoned buildings. Along with the surrounding area being one of the poorest places in the UK. As for the tourists... well... they just go and visit St Ives or Newquay instead.

We made your history if it wasn't for us you would exist show some respect

more like 51st, 2nd and 3rd states, plus many other oversease terratories

53rd state. Hot take but dc and Puerto Rico both deserve statehood

@@Orangelover-yo8gn Puerto Rican’s I know don’t want statehood they want independence.

It won't happen to be honest. The british public and Labour won't accept lowering food standards to give into American trade deals. We'd have to massively lower our food standards to get a stable deal with the Americans. Something the public isn't willing to do. There was a big protest about Brazilian food coming into McDonald's UK and they had to back down. This is just a taste of what would come if we gave into American demands.

@@ryanbrooks5482 not true, majority of the population wants to become a state

Actually, as a French person I can tell you that we don't talk too much about the UK (the news almost never mention the UK). It's quite "odd" for us to see the British ppl so focused on France tbh

@@KyotoSong2 France is probably too focused on its neo colonies in Africa and appeasing Putin.

Current politics have made the two not so friendly. Worst the relationship has been in decades. French have refused to stop illegal immigration and started fights over fishing (again). Technically friends, but not enthusiastically lol

@@silverhost9782 Actually I think it's more complicated than this "licence dispute". France has never wanted to be a pawn of United States, (US doesn't have a welfare system, treats its own workers poorly (those who are at the bottom of the social pyramid), and unleashed a French-bashing because France didn't support Georges Bush Iraki's war). To sum it up, US is France's ally but not a "modele" for us. So when UK, an European Country, decided to go "Brexit" and left the EU to get closer to the US (that's how we see it), you can't expect France (and probably the others European countries) to be "lenient" toward the UK. Plus don't forget France shares its border with 8 countries (+ Brasil with French Guyana), so we obviously have been influenced by all those countries. That's why we don't focus so much on Great Britain (I think we focus our attention equally on Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.)

@@KyotoSong2 In reality, France has been hostile to the UK for a long time. It took years to get into the EU because of France- and there will be years of hostility now that we're out of it. That's fine, because France things the UK is a threat to its EU, the political entity that it created and led (arguably still does). But let's not pretend it's any more than that

Very cool mascot

As a non-Mexican. I still don't know how to pronounce that properly.

​@@SuperCatacataaxe-oh-lot-ull or axe-uh-lot-ull

i'm american and i appreciate ours being a bison. we are united in enjoying having an animal cooler than the government mandated eagle

Bison are so fckin cool. and Tasty@@adog3129

That and Britan knows they would be overtly subservient in that role as they would rely on America economicly for everything. So it's tough question for Brits be under French and German influence or American.

If the tories are in charge of any voter reform, they will rig it so they can get in on a smaller and smaller minority. They will try to force lower standards on us, and the press will lie and say it's for our own good.

@@outrageddeer2101 at least with europe we'd have a seat at the top table.

honestly the food standards argument is such a weak argument, the fda has extremely strong standards. sometimes too strong, as the baby formula shortage showed.

Unlike europe the uk gets lots of tourists because he still have a monarch even though he a terrible person and London has a big bank area filled with lots of banks

It worked well 50 years ago, until they broke off the relationship and left Canada, Australia and NZ out to dry to join the EU...

we are not acting we are a financial Arnold Schwarzenegger, the issue is our politics

Check our GDP mate ... how can 60 million people on a island match other countries GDP .. Just better bro dont hate

@@silverhost9782 tbh that was inevitable after India left the empire after the conclusion of ww2 when the entire ship was broke as fuck. Once the Indian master log was removed, the rest of imperial dam was going down. Plus it definitely wasn't helped by the presence of 2 very clearly stronger powers now at the main table of global affairs

@@billclinton3862 not wrong but you are missing the bigger point at large. The UK is small subregional power trying to act like it is a continental power with whatever imperial power is left in the tank. Only all of our closest neighbours and even the US dislikes us at best or severely distrust us at worst now, and we have figured out the hard way that there is no imperial power in the tank anymore. And yes, our politics in that time definitely hasn't helped either

What do you mean no pain?

Georgian detected.

Stay close to the Americans. Better than France and Germany imo.

@@Tonius126 absolutely not. Americans are too unpredictable and warmongering to be trusted

@@Tonius126 but even still us Americans have a weird relationships with you guys. Our government is best friends with you guys but the people still very much see you guys as the enemy that needs defeating “eventually” and this is also pushed kinda by the government in the school system they make sure too tell us of y’all’s atrocities in colonization. They kinda gloss over ours lol

@@SatchelChannel America is also the only friend the UK has, and without that relationship, Brexit wouldn't have even been an idea.

@@soffren what about us aussies and the rest of the commonwealth? what about the canada we fought in both world for them and we arent their friends?

That's all true, but Britain's foreign policy of trying to stay away from the continent whenever possible was only in place when we were the greatest naval and economic power on Earth. The reason for it was that the government didn't want to be dragged down by commitments in Europe, which would prevent them from focusing on the empire and the colonies, and also because they wanted a reasonably peaceful bloc of countries to sell stuff to. Pretty much none of that is true anymore, so I don't think it can really be said to have a significant effect on current policy.

Indeed we would experience in a British Invasion in the 60s.

Why would we ever feel like invading our best friend to the East lol

10%. We just want peace and quiet, man...

Not every single brit of course but a large chunk of anti-immigration rhetoric in the UK was against the poles and Eastern Europeans in general, today it's more so the Albanians

@@sdprz7893 The main problem wasn't the Polish, it was the large number coming in that was kinda exploited by being part of the EU (free travel)

Heard that outside london they are paid illegaly (400 pounds for the family 6)and live in shack or a roof the farmer give him (for the most i've hear) The farmer need to do that because of the articial low price of food from foreign country like pakistan russia canada france etc The poles need that for various reasons coming for most of poverty And the englishmen suffer unemployment and all the problem that come with it since the farmer aren't employing 1 english but 4 poles instead

I am a Pole and am proud to be Polish. We are a very strong people, we can survive any hardship. Coincidentally, I am also British. 😅

lol imagine having polish problem and not a el habenero de mucho gusto latin american problem

Nothing to boast about in US

"the us is 50 countries (a third of which created by britain) in a trenchcoat"

@@Ninja-gt3zi yeah ok we have a gun problem and homeless crackheads we get it.

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​@@SpahGamingA third? Not sure about that math.

Same here, from my understanding, Irish unification is inevitable and would probably benefit Northern Ireland in the long term. As for Scotland, immediately joining the EU would most certainly be potentially suicidal, it would be the equivalent of someone who hasn't gone swimming before jumping in the deep end and just hoping for the best not to drown, although if Scotland were to join EFTA that could be more financially feasible for them.

I disagree that they were privileged, the UK was getting the least out of being in the EU so it makes sense that the economic burdens were reduced. Not really privileges when every other country was finding far more value.

@@maxdavis7722 There was a lot of countries investing into the UK because it was "the english country in the EU" though. That was worth a lot of money.

@@tempest5736 Irish reunification would probably benefit Britian as Northern Ireland is in economic deficit and has been for decades. But for Ireland, well there are about 1 million unionists that don't want to join - whether Ireland could handle the security challenges of 1 in 6 people being possible dissidents is questionable. What's stopping Northern Ireland turning into a bloodbath? Britain at least had an army they could send to stop that, Ireland's military is too small to keep order.

It's not the Scotland Nationalists. Those types are just Anti-English and not even British.

Its a stereotype

I find it ironic that some Brits think that Poland is a backwards state with no opportunity. It has the 3rd best education according to PISA, it has lots of available jobs and it's affordable which means the average Pole can afford unlike cough cough London. The UK is going down the drain.

@@kpeyton3 dude i have delt with this for 19 years, everyone thinks poland is some backwater and worst of all, any racism towards poles are "ok" cause we are white - oh well in 3 years I am moving back to poland so i cannot complain :)

@@kpeyton3 Yeah none of us were saying that I think

Because it's not true.

And the way Scandivania industralized laid the groundwork for social democracy in that region.

@@souvikrc4499 Well it's more so the reverse. Social democracy already was a thing and guided industrialization. In Germany and Britain nobility and the government bought up huge amounts of land and displaced farmers and craftsmen sometimes by force. In Scandivania though that didn't really happen as the peasants had too much power in the government. So the industrialization happened gradually due to market forces. The US industrialization is somewhat similar though it did happen a little faster.

@@MrMarinus18 and then Finland got independence, copied their homework and joined the council.

@@MrMarinus18 What do you mean USA's industrialisation was similar? how so? it wasn't as bad as Germany's sure but still pretty bad.

The industrialization of Britain was very top down. Millions of peasants and artisans are evicted from their houses and farms and hurled into factories and mines. These were funded by taxpayer money from India thanks to the conquests of the East India company.

@In Wellens we trust 1 like = 1 sheep saved from the Welsh

dont drag us into your brexit thing stay away!

@@chozer1 don't worry Norway is the coolest anyway

@@jamesanderson3633 Norway doesn't want the UK to join EFTA. Norway doesn't even like the UK

@@jasonhaven7170 I'm not surprised they don't like us. I don't like the uk

Thankfully the USA wouldn't be part of CANZUK if it ever happens. They'd ruin it

@@secretname4190 I mean doesn't it make sense to call it a British Empire because then you would just be joining back with your British family

That "just" is carrying a lot of weight.

@@leisti My assumption is that the levels of trust needed for an intelligence alliance far exceeds the threshold required for an economic alliance. The devil is in the operational details in terms coordinating an expanded NAFTA, so to speak, but the base level inter-state trust is an enormous hurdle already overcome due to common cultural and historical elements.

Bruh

Depends on how you rank navies. China has a far stronger Navy than the U.K., but if we went to war Britain could attack China while China wouldn’t even be able to reach the U.K. Other than the USA there’s not a single country that has more reach than the U.K. militarily. Just depends on what you value, but by pure fire power you could argue that we’re not even top 5 (if nukes are banned.

@@joshbentley2307 having the reach means nothing when you cant defeat your enemy, royal navy can bully some third world country sure but they cant do shit against japan or china

@@dragenmaster5385 as a self proclaimed “military nerd” your understanding of navies and global supply chains is laughable. The U.K. can literally send one of its nuclear submarines (which is currently in the Sea of Japan) and just go and bomb Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai. China wouldn’t be able to attack the U.K. conventionally because they literally can’t reach the island. Of course that would be ridiculous for the U.K. to do due to the sheer size of China’s economy and nuclear weapons. U.K. has 14 overseas territories (most are massive military bases) and 145 (the second highest amount in the world) known overseas military bases. Along with being able to use USA military bases (800+) U.K. can attack any country. China has 1 overseas military base in Djibouti which is surrounded by bigger NATO military bases (USA, U.K. and France) Japan also has 1 overseas military base which is also in Djibouti. Military bases are placed there to fight of pirates and defend global shipping lanes.

@@joshbentley2307 damn you know your shit my guy. Bravo.

We don’t have a strong navy, rather, it’s far reaching. We have a small presence everywhere rather than a large local presence like China. And bear in mind, it’s very unlikely we’d be fighting a war without the help of the US or someone else.

Yeah I’ve never heard it mentioned except on the internet

It also literally makes zero economic and political sense for both the UK and the other 3 supposed partners' point of view. The other 3 clearly (mainly Australia and Canada) are far more concerned about trade with the US whereas even after leaving the EU, the UK's largest trade partner is still the EU. It's basic geographical reality more than anything else

And on the basic point of trade deals after leaving, the deals have been basically totally worthless for the UK to the point where even former Tory ministers are saying so in Parliament

That is true like the most we do have a strong alliances with the angloshpere (and also the commonwealth) we have a strong alliance with most countries (NATO)

@@ed-b8045 tbh what strength is there in shit like the commonwealth? The UK gave up on trading with it for free by the 1960s when the EU was starting up and now the organisation is literally just nothing more than copium for the empireboos who delude themselves into thinking the empire isn't dead and buried and for the post-colonial countries it is a possible breadline for badly needed investment that they probably won't get from us lot 1) because we don't give a shit about them outside of humping dead glory and 2) we don't have money to invest considering we got did of the department of international development and we export barely anything bar financial and general services to the world around us and even that is badly failing currently.

Whether or not we are good at farming is irrelevant when we haven't the space to grow enough food for our population.

@@stewroo That honestly seems really weird. Denmark is almost able to feed itself and all of Norway with the surplus, like 85-90% coverage of 11-12 million people, Norway got fishing, and Sweden is big enough with a small enough population to feed all of the UK in theory(if impractical due to economics and common sense, holy shit it would require so much reshaping of nature) So how come the UK cannot realistically feed itself? I mean fucksakes Denmark used to be so shit we had to import wheat while them English ones could even grow wheat in their paradise of not too rainy and warm weather....instead of the literal frozen swamplands of pre industrial Denmark....and now we can feed as mentioned, a shitload of people. So how the fuck can big ass UK not feed itself? As a state it seems to have plenty of space on the world map, relatively speaking. Is it all woodlands or just big rocks? Like....I do not comprehend it! How do you fuck up food, it should be the first fucking thing on your mind EVERY DAY....like....come on! This is how you get bullied by danish and norwegian farmers and end up with Manchester.....and York....

Yep the population isn't that dense just because of immigration.

Good to see they've made a recovery since the incident

@@thenickstrikebetter Recovery might be a stretch - more like 'fewer people to feed'

Most cheese in the UK comes from Ireland 👀

@@Smooy1111 I heard a stat a few years ago (so could be well dated) that 1/4 of all beef burgers in Europe are Irish. I think what the other commenters are missing also is that even during the famine there was more than enough food in Ireland to go around. Instead it was used to feed the empire.

@@thenickstrikebetter the incident only happened because of Britain

Commonwealth realms (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) already cooperate with each other in each level of government, the only thing missing is an economic agreement. Here in Canada we have close relations to the UK even at a municipal (city) level, since the Crown is involved with local charities and institutions.

A better demographic in that it has more Africans?

France has the same demographics as the UK and Germany is literally going to lose 20 million people by 2100

They don't have to pay money to the EU that's pretty much it. I think the UK was giving more to the EU than any other country.

@@Andrew-gn9qp There is economic agreement, just the UK apart of it. Its between the US, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia. He mentioned it in the video, it would probably be good for them to get in on it if they can.

Basically, slower industrialization creates good-paying industrial jobs at a slower rate, so instead of all the kids in a rural family of ten moving to the city, only one or two actually do. Since rural families tend to have more kids than urban families, the siblings on the farm go on to have more kids while their urban siblings have fewer kids. Peer pressure from the family may help in encouraging the city folk to have more kids as well. Over time, urban couples get used to having larger families, especially if there's sufficient space for suburban housing. Replay this scenario every generation and you'll likely get a stable population pyramid.

The classic british saying, “still, could be worse”, which sums up life here pretty well I think

You really think Mexico would act without the US?

Honestly, British humour and Latino humour slaps.

@@looseygoosey1349 It does. It trades and deals with whomever they want

@@redhead9253 British “humor.”

That would make the British look extremely desperate, considering that the Mexican cartel has more power and influence than the government

Apparently, someone should tell Nicola Sturgeon real quick

@@silverhost9782 before she does referendum.. Haha true

That's not what leaving the EU was.

Yeah it's crazy everyone knew that would happen. The problem with much of the analysis against brexit is that its always on an economic pov. Many people didn't vote for that reason.

I always thought that NATO should be the Lion and not the EU as the former is far more powerful and kind of rules the world like, ya know, a lion.

Check on Wikipedia. Every country has official National animals

​@@ShubhamMishrabroalthough the UK claim's the Lion as its national animal (a species that doesn't even live there). So not all of them are national animals but are closely related to the national identity of the nation (a bulldog has represented Brittain in political cartoons since the 1900s). And some have multiple national animals like the USA having both the Bald Eagle and the American Bison/Buffalo. (I think a buffalo better represents our actual behavior on the world stage)

Brexit didn't cripple shit. The UK government crippled itself by stalling Brexit as hard and long as possible, then refusing to put a stop on immigration and now refusing to drop the retarded green policy shit with talk of paying 3rd world countries for climate change.

The EU is slowly imploding, in a tremendous debt with high unemployment rates and poor stability in the EU countries such as Italian government changes and the Russia Ukraine war. It actually feels like a relief leaving also travel to the EU countries hasn't become that more difficult, this year I travelled to Italy and stayed there for 80 days without even having to apply for a visa.

Long term it will be beneficial trust

@@DivinesLegacy source: trust me bro

Turning the economy off for a year over COVID whilst not funding public services for 15 years was much, much worse than Brexit has been (so far)

Agreed

No it shouldn't. Let it collapse and burn.

Aka they are a bit bitter they aren't number 1 anymore

Uk is like a spoiled dad who's had a falling out with the neighbours in the area they've lived comfortably in for a long time and has now decided to drag his unwilling family out of the area to live on the streets for a while whilst claiming it was a family decision and the right thing to do

Chasing old glories while ignoring new problems right?

@@jack1701e sounds true, but I’m not British. Also not living in the UK.

We’re a victim of our own culture. We’re known stereotypically for our stiff upper lip and the “keep calm and carry on” slogan. This is a true stereotype, we’re so used to living in tough times we just carry on and little changes. Although thankfully it seems people are finally fed up with the tories and things might begin to change.

A certain Far Eastern giant objected.

😂 you indians are funny

If india agrees to be a kingdom under an old brit we may have an agreement

Only if India wants to be a dominion under British rule again. But we’re not joining countries 👎

The UK is not Europe. There are plenty of great places to live on the continent. I wouldn't suggest you move here though.

@@uponthebay Well… thanks for the advice

oof dont go to Mexico buddy. Just recently the Cartels shut down a couple of cities when the Federal Government arrested a big boss. The Federal government in Mexico right now is a complete joke with Trump lite in office. Mexico is a different beast

@@looseygoosey1349 My brother in christ… I live in Mexico, and yea it is crap but as long as someone doesn't kick de hornets nest civilians will be ok-ish

@@themadsuika3909 that's pretty much everywhere tbh

Same, love the Brit’s. Our cousins across the water

the food, the accents Sure 🤮

The food??? Bro it must be because I'm Latino but spain and Italy have the better foods compared to the UK

british food is good for certain things, I’d say if you want simple, yet delicious and filling, go for british food. Nothing beats a shepherds pie on a winter evening. That being said, europe does better summer food, it’s lighter and more exotic.

As I british person I'm confused as to why you would like are food

No, there is no world in which placing trade barriers with by far your biggest trade partner would ever work unless you made major sacrifices like lowering standards for the US or befriending authoritarian nations like China. You cant blame global issues for the reason why we have much worse problems than other comparative countries as they are global issues. According to the CER which looked at similar advanced economies we know that Brexit has cost the UK around 5.2% GDP in 2021. COVID does not explain why we lagging far behind all our EU peers Brexit hasn't gone well because it wasn't implemented hard enough, Brexit didn't work because its a fundamentally bad idea.

@@aidan-4759 "putting up trade barriers" many of which could have been avoided by Brexiting harder. Of other countries can make it outside of the EU, I don't see why your island cannot. Sure, there's bound to be turbulence in upsetting existing agreements, but overall should be fine and should see small barriers to trade.

@@AnyVideo999 Could you explain how putting up trade barriers with the EU would have been avoided if we Brexited harder?

@@aidan-4759 @deermapping2158 I think we're falling into the trap of false dichotomy here where it's either (Brexit is the problem) or (Bad Leadership and Confounding Variables are the problem). The more likely option is both. There is no denying that leaving the EU and losing the free flow of trade + economic leverage to regulate world commerce has been bad for the UK, but with better leadership and luck we could have left without nearly as much economic hardship as we have currently. Secondly, people are not looking at trade deals with the U.S. with enough nuance. The food standards issue is basically the Remain campaigns equivalent of the Brexit bus and has just kind of been accepted by the mainstream. Yes, there are chemicals that the U.S. puts in their food that are banned by the EU, but the opposite is also true, in fact many chemicals used in EU countries' food productions are prohibited by the FDA in America, so it's not this black and white situation where the EU's safety standards are better; more so that they are just different and each are better in different circumstances. This same logic applies to the other industries as well, but food was an easy point for remainers to score and I don't blame them for taking that shot, but we _are_ out now, so if we could play our cards right America can be almost as good as the EU (unfortunately distance will always be a problem). On the point of global crises, we can absolutely say that they affected the UK differently from the rest of the world, since our economic system is not identical to everyone else. An analogy I would use is like a wrecking ball hitting two different walls. One of those walls is a newly built concrete wall with steel reinforcements, and the other has been built a long time ago with just iron reinforcements. They might have been hit with the same wrecking ball (COVID, Ukraine, Inflation, Cost Of Living etc.) but the old wall breaks in some places. The point is that the UK's economy has been stagnant more than the EU big boys have (Germany and France) since 2008; hence the wall being older, and the wrecking ball hit the UK right at its most delicate moment (during and immediately after leaving the EU), hence why the old wall only has iron reinforcements, to simulate the relative weakness of the UK's economic legislation and policy which was, and still is chaotic during and after the leaving process. These laws and policies are designed to bring order to the economy, so that businesses are able to predict how it will behave, and also to help the economy hold together during hard times. The reality is no two walls are the same, even if the wrecking ball is, the effect on the walls will never be the same. Besides, to look at Brexit from this purely economic perspective is to miss most of the point of it in the first place. Brexit primarily was a dispute over legislative and political authority. To be part of the EU is to agree that EU law supersedes national law with mind to some specially agreed upon exceptions and exemptions. The UK had a lot of these exceptions and exemptions, which already shows that there was friction between UK and EU authorities to begin with. The fact is that the UK has some pretty big disagreements with EU laws, and would prefer to have our own laws take precedence, but we can't do that whilst also remaining part of the EU. Immigration is one of the most pressing issues, and the UK _did_ have control of their borders within the EU; we were never part of the Schengen Area so we were able to turn people away at sea, but IIRC there were European Union laws which forced us to offer asylum to migrants we didn't want if they actually landed on UK soil. See, when we left the EU the Conservatives were actually supposed to suppress immigration to the UK with the new legislative power they had, and they ALWAYS talk big but do nothing as more and more visas are accepted year after year, and more and more illegal crossings pile up. We've seen this with the Rwanda plan, which they talked endlessly about and hyped it up as much as possible but then only a minuscule fraction were actually put on planes to Rwanda. This is because almost ALL of the UK's institutions are corrupted from within by pro-immigration sentiments and put up as many barriers to change as possible, and the Conservative party just LET'S IT HAPPEN. With respect to this, and other situations like it, it's no wonder many Brexiteers are so demoralized to the point that some have switched sides because they've realized just how compromised British institutions are, including the Conservatives themselves. From an economic perspective alone, leaving the EU is a fundamentally bad idea, but it is a great idea if you understand it from a legal and political perspective, and to most Brexiteers that independence was the core reason for leaving and we are willing to deal with economic hardship to satisfy that. To any pro-Brexit people here; don't forget this. The current ruling class in the UK won't be in power forever, and when they are finally pushed back maybe we can actually live up to the positive legal and political expectations that Brexit was supposed to be about all along. P.S. I hear that Germany and France are having some kind of energy disagreements which could rock the EU to its core, so rejoining is likely an even worse idea than continuing on our current trajectory with America.

Dam your Danish? Get well soon I’m praying for you 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Space Canuk Would you really pick the French and the Germans ahead of us Brits? As probably the only other Europeans that we like and respect I expected more from you Scandinavians

@@lawbringer9857 We pick what works when it works, and trade with 26 other moderate to rich nations is more useful than aligning with a single country on the decline. Nothing personal, and I say that as an anglophile who was raised in old BNA loyalist country.

Is would like a video on Israel, it is a relatively new country, but a quite interesting one

@@owenbrandon8370 can’t say bad things about Israel so not gonna happen

Nauru is a sad story

@Owen Brandon it isnt a country

@@Konkov Most countries in the world are new

No?

Voters aren't gonna wanna wait that Long for change

@@jonassavimbi4795 I think with fully rejoining they will wait but I think rejoining the single market is likely within the next 2 parliaments

@@aidan-4759 Do you think the EU would actually let Britain back in after all the chaos before? I think on a democratic level rejoining would settle the EU problem for the UK - as a lot of the problem was British politicians signing EU power expansion treaties without British votes agreeing to it which obviously pissed people off - most notably Tony Balir promising a referendum on Lisbon and then cancelling it. Joining again would allow people to actually have a say, which would improve perception of the EU in Britain.

@@jgw9990 Yes but they will wait for British politics to stabilize. We will only be able to rejoin the EU once there is again a consensus between major parties that we should rejoin as rejoining will take multiple parliaments. Though I do think the process will be much faster if we get proportional representation as that way the split left wing vote (e.g. LibDems and Greens) will matter much more. And the swing voters in swing seats (who don't want to rejoin) will matter less. That would make the main political parties more likely to be pro-EU.

Feels like a cope to me, unless things get significantly worse the UK parties aren't going to try to rejoin. The likelihood of things getting bad enough for that to actually be on the cards is low, despite what some (mostly foreign) people might want to believe

Ok, name some innacuracies.

Yet Germany and France are interested in disentangling themselves from American influence... even if you were right, the USA might not have a choice of who it gets to friends with in Europe

@@silverhost9782I hope they become less dependent on the us and can actually defend themselves and exist without the us but don’t let them get too strong we all remember what happened

You guys act as if we need Europe it's the other way around .

@@ramoncastaneda8432 everyone needs each other, this isn’t the 19th century

@@avinashreji60 actually that's not true for the United States we have every element on the periodic table that's available for us can't say the same for the rest of the world , you do realize that it is America that's patrolling the world's oceans which allows for globalization.