Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "There's a Sickness at the Heart of British Democracy \u0026 It's called Corruption" video.

  1. I NOW LIVE IN BULGARIA officially the most corrupt country in the EU - Its nowhere near as corrupt as the UK The £2 billion T&T fiasco is the entire corruption budget for Bulgaria for the last decade and then some...
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  2.  @vinlondon8904  - Absolutely - a rich local politician here applied for permission to build a sea wall to stop erosion, he was granted the permission. He built a huge hotel. totally illegal and they are making him pull it down, he must not have paid enough bribes. But everyone sees it and it is obviously illegal. What he should have done is donated to a politician who would lobby to get the law changed for "special circumstances" and THEN applied for permission to build the hotel. Like they would have done in the UK. In fact, in the UK he would probably have got a GRANT to build the hotel... We had riots over the corruption last year - why? Cos we could SEE the obvious corruption. Not in the UK, too sophisticated at doing it...
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  3. I NOW LIVE IN BULGARIA officially the most corrupt country in the EU - Its nowhere near as corrupt as the UK The corruption here is incredibly amateur, in your face illegal stuff that gets noticed. They have NOT learned that what you do is you FIRST CHANGE THE LAW to make the corruption legal and THEN you do the corruption. They will learn, just pay Cameron to consult on how to do it properly.
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  4.  @DistrictWitch  - The world has never moved on from Kings and Princes. Only we now call them "Billionaires". The kings disliked having their heads chopped off every couple of hundred years so they dropped the title and let the serfs play a game they called "democracy". The serfs get to choose between 2 essentially identical "parties" who both do the bidding of the kings and the good part is the "politicians" get all the blame whilst the kings have a nice quiet life. I live in Bulgaria now, an ex-communist country. Its really interesting to see the structure of a society that was [however imperfectly] designed and build for the benefit of the people who live in it. Its too long a discussion to have here - but my city is filled with thousands of fruit trees that provide [I worked it out cos I am sad] about £15,000,000 of FREE FRUIT every year for the people of this city. You don't do that in a western city cos that's £15 mill NOT going into the hands of shop keepers and the economy. Its hundreds of things like this that you simply never consider that you are getting screwed for. Schools - there are 8 schools within walking distance [15 minutes] of my apartment. Who benefits from gigantic centralised schools with 3,000 kids? The kids? NO. The parents NO. But its cheaper so you can give lower taxes to the rich... Where I live - a house / apartment listing gives you the minutes walk to schools, doctors, council office, hospital, playground, etc cos THAT is a factor here. It not in the UK cos its 30 minute DRIVE. Inevitably the green spaces will get built on. The fruit trees will get cut down. The schools will be merged - cos the country is "modernising" which is a euphemism for "getting screwed over by rich capitalists" A recent survey here 45% of people wanted to go back to communism. Another very long debate - but communism was nothing like we were told in the west. Both way better and way worse. But mostly very different to how we imagine it.
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