How Britain Became a Poor Country
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 Published On Jul 1, 2024

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A video about how Britain kinda fell apart.

Written, directed and presented by Tom Nicholas.
Edited by Georgia Burrows.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction
02:36 David Cameron's Cuts Cuts Cuts
11:43 The Brexit Boys
22:53 Covid & Consequences
33:55 Keir Starmer, or, David Cameron Mk II
36:42 A Very Exciting Announcement!

Blurb

Britain kinda sucks now. Over the past 14 years, it's become a poorer, nastier and far less hopeful place. As the country prepares to head to the polls in the 2024 general election, I thought I'd review exactly how we got here.

This is the story of how the British Conservative Party under David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak subjected the UK to a series of unhinged free-market experiments which ate away at the very foundations of British economic, social and political life.

This is the story of how Britain became a poor country.

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Select footage courtesy of Getty
Music from Epidemic Sound

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