Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "The rise and fall of British power" video.

  1. As a Brit this concept is laughable, we are in a recession, the only thing stopping it from being an official one is that the population is increasing faster than the GDP, yes this means GDP per capita is deflating, GDP is a measure of money moving around, the government policy with immigration is to take debts to pay for these people, e.g. we are in a situation worse than a recession to avoid one, we are basically living on pay day loans to cover our credit cards and our solution is to rack up more. People here are very unhappy, we deindustrialised decades ago and continue to be totally hairbrained in economic policy, we are shutting down our last steel factories. We literally dynamited our coal power stations and now are reliant for energy on the Dutch, this is why ours is more expensive than Germany's. Decades ago we wreaked rail infrastructure and currently roads are becoming disrepaired as well, and our politicians are responding by undermining the poor transportation we have for not being green. Outside of London much of the country is economically worse off than eastern europe, housing is at such ridiculous prices that it covers most of the genuine poverty from view, also given house prices it is very clear the young will never own homes or get pensions, the price of houses puts them above the inheritance tax threshold and means that 40% of everything their parents own will go to the state, also as the focus of our healthcare (other than absorbing a budget that could single handedly run both sides of the Ukraine war and have room left over for building a bridge to France out of aircraft carriers) is keeping old people alive you will be in your 60's by the time you get it, not exactly prime childbearing years. Our politicians and state institutions are ludicrously corrupt, and show incredible animus towards the population. Criminals are allowed to run rampant but political dissidents and victims who fight back are crushed like beetles. America is not a friend, our political class need to grow up, France is a better friend as they at least tell what they think of us to our face. Politically this country is terrible, there are not political options, both sides are students of Tony Blair. There is nothing democratic about our system, it is a corrupt and tyrannical oligarchy, we have an unelected foreigner as Prime Minister, the guy was planning to leave for the US prior to being installed as viceroy. I'm probably being far to positive, I can't describe the contempt shown towards the population of this country by those with power over it. They proudly tell us that we will be a minority in our homeland by 2060, then they arrest those who say it back to them. It is beholden on us to foster contempt, cultivate strength and bide time, we need to organise against everything this country has come to stand for, and bring back our homeland of old, one of high culture, morality, virtue and strength.
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  2. The Muslims get blamed because of how you act, if it wasn't for Rotherham you would merely be disliked. Coming out of the Empire a lot of Brits were fairly arabphile, not anymore.
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  3. The US has a very distinct culture and basically focused their education on reeducation into the national culture and myth. Britain is a settled nation, we are built on ethnic particularity, not ideas.
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  4. Reform are way too moderate. We need systemic change.
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  5. Parliament killed the empire, some 'classical liberalism '. We won't recover until we throw off the stranglehold of the enlightenment.
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  6. Togally, parliament is Britain's key weakness.
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  7.  JG-MV  I will do that the moment I have power, you might as well tell a Russian to vote better.
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  8.  @pete8299  They mostly monitor facebook as that has all the racist 90 year olds, not even kidding.
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  9.  @mdjey2  I know, tell that to our politicians or media however, GDP goes up 0.2% population goes up 0.7%, "Thing's are not just fine, they are good". Ultimately they aren't the one's who have to decide between rent and food, and they don't care that you are, indeed the problem is that they don't care at all, or take responsibility for anything.
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  10.  @ADI-dp3bp  The East Asian tourists visit the stately homes, museums and areas of historical importance, not the council estates, new build developments and derelict high streets. Likewise they read Jane Austin and Sherlock Homes, not whatever tripe is in the Sunday Times recommended list. Civilisations aren't built on a vacuum, or in one.
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  11. What is 'soft power' good for, can if fill an empty stomach, provide for a family, or protect the innocent from crime and predation.
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  12. The BBC have a rather extreme left wing bias and have for decades, this effects how they frame things, but also the very old joke is that they just steal all their points from the guardian newspaper.
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  13. Indian nationalists are living in a dream, how was your country the richest after being split in civil war and having it's capital sacked by the Afghanis. It was rich a century before the British started conquering, by the time they moved in it was into a power vacuum, and there was little resistance as heavy taxes were better than dealing with marauding armies and hordes of bandit horsemen. The British meant law and being paid on time in real money.
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  14. It is notable that the elite of the country vacillate from not knowing what the culture of the country is, to hating it.
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  15. Britain is incredibly resource rich, it has tin, silver, gold, and mountains of excellent quality coal, it is also fertile and water makes transportation much cheaper. The problem is explicitly a political one, Japan has no resources but is well led.
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