Comments by "Incurable Romantic" (@incurableromantic4006) on "Economics Explained" channel.

@michaelcoward1902 Life in this country has indeed gone massively downhill since the borders were thrown open and 20 million people, including vast numbers from totally incompatible cultures, were brought into our already crowded island. You can scoff at that, but I've seen it happen in my own lifetime with my eyes, and so have most people.
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@robinj6137 No, that is not true, that a lie put about by the people who benefit from lower wages and higher house-prices. And who don't have to bear the consequences of over-loaded services, degraded communities, increased crime and worse job prospects. Not to mention the billions extracted from the economy every year in remittances sent out of the country.
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Fair to say that every government lies about its economic success to some degree - but when there's no opposition or critical media: those lies can go uncorrected and unchallenged.
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Yup. Most of the country looks like Islamabad already, so it's not like there's even much to leave behind. The Britain I knew as a child, the unique and distinctive culture and nation: has been totally destroyed.
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Our population is growing because of staggering immigration - which is utterly destroying the character of the country, making housing unaffordable, overloading our public services and creating huge social divisions and conflicts. If there's one thing the UK desperately needs, it's to return immigration to 1990s levels: and start being a LOT pickier about who we let in.
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@NotADuncon Do you take the same view with fascism? "Keep trying it to see if it works better this time?" Fascism at least made the trains run on time, right? So something to learn there. . . . .
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Well they're not wrong. The demographic crisis has been foreseeable for decades, people just chose to ignore it because it would mean uncomfortable conversations. And the energy problem was easily predictable - Trump warned them it was a bad idea and they literally laughed in his face.
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@Ruslan-S "it was socialism in name only" Not a TRUE Scotsman!
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@JasRoss The very small natural decline of the British population would have been replaced by a minuscule fraction of the immigration we've had since 1997. Not to mention our birth rate would be better if housing were not so unaffordable due to open borers. The "need workers" claim is an excuse used by people who for ideological reasons want to dilute Britain's distinctive national identity through infinite immigration.
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Like most European countries - Italy just needs to have more children. And that means cutting immigration, lowering housing costs, reforming marriage laws: and other things that no one in the establishment wants to do.
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Well we know for a fact that socialism doesn't work. So it's kinda irrelevant to any discussion of whether there is a workable alternative to the current system,
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I'm utterly astonished that negative birth-rates is not the number one issue in every European country. It's literally life and death for our civilisation.
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Demographics is so important - and India didn't follow China's one-child policy or the west's rapacious abortion industry. If you have strong demographic, a strong national culture, and the government doesn't make too much of a mess of things - the sky is the limit.
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The problem with the Nobel Prize is that (like everything else) it's been infiltrated by woke politics: and a lot of choices end up being made by a desire to virtue signal rather than by looking at objective effect.
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If there's one thing I learned from the toppling of Saddam Hussein, it's that just because a country has an evil dictatorship, doesn't mean you should always want it to collapse. Reform tends to work better than revolution.
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The only real priority is increasing the native birth-rate. Most European cultures won't even exist by the end of the century due to catastrophically low birth-rates and uncontrolled immigration from outside Europe.
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None of the, "iTs aLl cOs uV bReXiT" mob ever explain why the Eurozone economies are struggling as bad or often worse. The UK's biggest problem is our ruling class prefers to import endless immigrants rather than train and employ our own people.
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The whole developed world has too much debt and too few babies: that's the bottom line.
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All of Europe has the same problems - decades of too few babies and too much government. Bringing in millions of low-skilled people from the 3rd world has proven to make everything worse rather than better - which politicians still don't want to admit.
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Yes - I can't say I find a future of endlessly dwindling population a terribly encouraging one.
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I'm assuming this is all because of Brexit? Because whenever anyone discusses any of Britain's problems - that seems to be the only thing people in the comments have to say. . . . . . . .
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Capitalism can go wrong in a 100 different ways - but socialism always goes wrong the same ways.
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Just don't ruin it by promoting "diversity" - learn from Sweden and Germany.
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This is also the excuse used to justify infinite immigration - "It grows GDP". But it also makes life for the locals worse and worse.
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It's the people who make the difference. Which is why I don't want mass-immigration from rubbish states into the west.
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Britain's entire economy and government is focused around one single objective - infinite immigration. Cheaper labour, more expensive houses, a more Balkanized society. It's utterly destroyed this country.
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I'm pleased to hear that, I really worry about Italy's future and I do wish her people well.
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This always make me howl when socialists condemn capitalism for hurting the environment - the USSR turned whole regions into poisoned, lifeless deserts.
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"after decades of cutting back" Please name a single year where public spending has shrunk.
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@bryangeake5826 There has been no "austerity". Government spending has risen every single year for decades, along with our national debt. Facts matter.
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@bryangeake5826 Our national debt is currently around 105% of GDP. How high would recommend it go in order to end this "austerity" that involves more spending every year?
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@bryangeake5826 I repeat - please name a year where government spending was less than the year before.
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Europe went soft after 1945, and started actively hating the traditions that made them great.
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Yeah - Europeans are voting for Gert Wilders and the AFD because they are just so ecstatically happy at how the EU is running things. 🙄
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@burgundian-peanuts It really didn't take hindsight, just common sense. Which is totally absent from the liberal elites. I was saying years ago we needed nuclear power and more babies - and I'm no genius.
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Out of control immigration is the number one factor driving up housing costs all over the western world. But it's taboo to talk about it.
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Finally - someone saying what the real problem is. The ruling classes are addicted to open borders like a drug, and it's killing this country.
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The Nobel Prize has been seriously devalued in recent years: they've started giving out awards for reasons of "progressive" politics rather than impact.
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For decades when I thought about Canada, I used to think of rugged, but civilised people who helped us out in wars. Now when I think about Canada, I think of authoritarian repression. I don't know how many other people think like me, but I know I'm not alone in being shocked at what's happened to the place under the Trudeau regime.
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@nilNell He imposed military law on the country, stole the money of those who donated to his opponents, sent in horses to trample peaceful protests against his government, banned unfriendly media from press conferences, and wants to license journalists. What exactly should that be called if not authoritarianism? It's literally the CCP playbook.
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