Comments by "Incurable Romantic" (@incurableromantic4006) on "VisualEconomik EN" channel.

  1. Corruption, nepotism and tribalism are the norm in some cultures, and a rarity in others.
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  2. The Euro was always an imperial project not an economic one - they brought in numerous countries that were simply not suitable to be put in the same economic basket, and which had radically different needs and issues.
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  3. Well: 1. According to the IMF - the UK had higher real GDP growth in 2021 than France or Germany. 2. I quite like the idea of democracy. So giving the EU the boot was a step in the right direction from that POV. I get that not everyone is a fan of democracy however, and EU fans tend not to be.
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  4. I don't understand - surely all those millions of enriching immigrants guarantee wealth and prosperity? šŸ¤”
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  5. But. . . . . .but. . . . . . .we were told all that immigration would make us richer Why didn't it work? šŸ¤”
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  6. "except perhaps a true United States of Europe" And that was the EU's plan - they allowed unsuitable countries to be subsumed by the Euro in the hope that it would create a crisis they could use to force further submission to Brussels. That gamble may or may not pay off.
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  7. Ā @NMY232Ā  1. Comparing the entire Eurozone with the UK is fairly meaningless since poorer countries generally grow a lot faster - that was why it's fairer to make the comparisson with peers like France and Germany. Not with Bulgaria 2. The EU is one of only two government bodies in the world that legislates in secret. The other is North Korea.
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  8. According to the IMF - the UK had higher real GDP growth in 2021 than France or Germany. I know no one wants to hear that, but facts are facts.
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  9. Ā @Okay-cd6beĀ  Insults are what stupid people use instead of reasoned argument.
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  10. That's exactly what Sunak has done - while neglecting to do even the easiest and most obvious things to alleviate our problems, such as issuing fracking licenses, cutting the flow of corruption (sorry "aid") to Ukraine, or ceasing the hiring of endless woke activists into public service jobs. Nothing will get better if the people at the top don't want it to.
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  11. Ā @joemacdonnagh6750Ā  If weakness against the dollar is a sign of failure, then I'm afraid you need to know that the Euro is lower against it than Sterling.
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  12. - "Immigration enriches your society" (Largest immigration surge in history) - "Britain is broke"
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  13. Fortunately - looting the west is a thriving business once again. šŸ™„
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  14. You can see the same problem with our approach to the homelessness issue - people want to do what makes them feel good, not what's actually effective in solving the problem. Plus of course - the whole "international aid" thing has become a massively lucrative racket for NGOs and corrupt governments.
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  15. They'll have to do two things: - Get their birth rate way up. - Resist the slow creep of western woke ideology.
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  16. It also makes the child-birth situation worse as it keeps wages low and house-prices high - making it even harder to have children.
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  17. Ā @DievestorsNeverLearnĀ  Who did the slave traders buy the slaves from?
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  18. Ā @DievestorsNeverLearnĀ  Means if you fling things done by "my people" in my face, I'm allowed to fling things done by "your people" in yours. Not complicated.
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  19. Ā @teddyboysdontknit810Ā  "what has GDP got to do with quality of life" Very little, which is why I find it so bizarre that submission or absence from the EU is discussed almost entirely in those terms. "The EU parliament is more democratic than the UK." The British people vote for the house of commons - the body that drafts our laws. The EU commission (the body that drafts EU laws) is totally unelected and totally unaccountable. I'm well aware you EU cultists regard yourselves as a sort of "superior caste" and look on the ordinary people's of Europe with contempt and disgust: but I'm afraid that isn't how we regard ourselves. And like the those tiresome men in England in the 1640s, France in the 1790s and Poland in the 1980s: we're not willing to leave everything to our self appoint "betters" without any question or accountability.
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  20. Ā @NMY232Ā  "The Eurozone traditionally always had lower growth than the UK" Wow - I wasn't expecting you to make the argument Euro-sceptics usually make. I would applaud your honesty only you obviously merely blurted that out because you hadn't thought it through. As for the commission - it is unelected and unaccountable: an intolerable state of affairs for a body with so much power, and which would certainly not be acceptable in any nation-state that claimed to be democratic.
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  21. What could make things a lot easier for (almost) everyone, would be an international trade-currency based on a basket of commodities. Of course, politicians don't want that as it means they'd be curtailed in their spending.
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  22. Exactly - corruption and nepotism are lethal to economic development. Israel is a total demolition of environmental explanations for Islamic failure.
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  23. What would really solve it is curtailing immigration - that's the main reason prices are rising all over the western world.
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