Comments by "R" (@rdrrr) on "How Britain Became a Poor Country" video.

@abloogywoogywoo Dumb take. Constitutional changes in the US require a supermajority of states to agree. The referendum that split Montenegro off from Serbia required a 55-45 majority (that one only narrowly passed). A vote can have a requirement beyond a simple majority and still be a democratic vote.
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@Spamhard Non-immigrants in entry-level jobs also get treated like shit. How do I know? That's my life. Classism has always been an issue in the UK but now the economy's getting worse it feels like the middle class outright hate the working class.
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No, we're not a monolith. 51.5% of Brits voted for Brexit; 48.5% didn't. Brexit should never have been decided on a simple majority.
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Unironically tempting. Poland has safe cities, a strong culture, higher social trust and the economy is growing. I've visited Poland quite a few times and I liked it a lot. Unfortunately I don't have any skills that are particularly in demand in Poland. Also, Polish is fucking difficult.
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@aw2584 Honestly I would rather be Polish than British. You have a country with a strong culture, safer cities and solid long-term economic prospects. As a Brit, the future seems bleak. For all the problems Poland has I think things are getting better, whereas here they're just getting worse.
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@IzzysTravelDiaries And how would I be treated as an English migrant worker in Hungary, considering Hungary's attitude to migrants? You came here for work, deprived a native of an entry-level job and you don't understand why someone might take issue with it.
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@Klaudiuszeg Poles are the best immigrants we've ever had. They're honest, hardworking and they intermarry and integrate into our culture. Nobody else even comes close. I'm in favour of what I'd call "evidence-based immigration". If your people prove their worth then we should unlock the door. Otherwise, you ain't coming in.
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@Spamhard It's kind of a bullied-people-become-bullies situation. It's frustrating; rather than band together with people who are also in the shit, a lot of people choose to drag others down with them. FWIW I'm anti-immigration (or, as I'd rather put it, in favour of common-sense immigration reform) but I'd never abuse someone for being an immigrant. It's the system that's at fault, not them personally.
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@IzzysTravelDiaries Stereotypically, people from your part of the world will accept poor pay and tolerate bad working conditions because you're dependent on your boss for a visa. More "diverse" businesses tend to be worse to work for. So not only were you indirectly depriving a native of a job, you were contributing to our country's toxic labour situation. Not your fault, but I don't blame people for expressing frustration either.
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@sam3317 Well Kier Starmer is basically just Tony Blair minus the charisma (i.e. a non-entity) so the next 5 years aren't looking great either. We'll see. I'm still salty that the "Red Tories" ousted Corbyn, who might actually have changed things.
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@ERROROVER9K 100 votes for this shit? What? People love to talk about the UK like we're all xenophobes. Trust me, we're not the worst. France and the Netherlands have got us beat. Young people are pro-EU and see Brits - all Brits - as right-wing xenophobes due to Brexit, which is wrong for so many reasons. But it doesn't matter, because my country's been a boogeyman for a long time so it's fine to kick us when we're down.
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@Bayard1503 We've already lost. Bradford has a nickname; "Little Pakistan". It isn't culturally British. How do you even fix it at this point? You can't integrate millions of Muslims and you can't requisition the whole Royal Navy to deport them either. Even if you could most British Muslims - who treat women like slaves, hate homosexuals and see non-Muslims as "kafir" who do not deserve to be treated as human beings - are "naturalized" British citizens. They are not British culturally, but they are by law. Worst possible outcome. I just don't know what to do. I don't see a way to turn back the clock.
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@PeachDragon_ Only the upper classes benefited from the Empire. Plundered wealth was not shared with the general population. Holding the working class guilty for the old Empire's crimes is misguided and prejudiced. In fact, if you read about the process of "nation building" in the 19th and 20th centuries, you will find the upper class behaved like colonial officials even at home, imposing their language and culture on a population that had previously lived their own way. There used to be hundreds of distinct languages in France, so different "dialects" isn't adequate to describe them. Every town and village had its own language, religious practices and cultural tradition. But the French government put an end to that by force...
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@jonscholes8721 Representative democracy isn't very democratic. It's an oligarchy where politicians pretend to be accountable to the people but are mostly accountable to lobbyists.
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