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Is Lockdown Worth It? – Coronavirus vs The Economy – TLDR News
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It’s controversial to talk about the value of human life, but sometimes it’s just necessary. So in this video, we ran the maths to try and work how much economic damage can be justified to save lives.
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In this video we explore Burnham’s promise to implement a more representative electoral system in the UK but will he actually succeed where countless other governments have failed – and actually change the voting system?
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History of Electoral Reform
Idox Group Electoral Reform: A Never Ending Story?
https://www.idoxgroup.com/insights/electoral-reform-a-never-ending-story/
BBC News Opposing Voting Reform ‘Selfish’ and ‘Immoral’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41775307
UK in a Changing Europe Electoral Reform: the State of Debate and Future Prospects
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/electoral-reform-the-state-of-debate-and-future-prospects/
Make Votes Matter 2024 Was Our Least Representative Election Ever
News Articles
Electoral Reform Society Prime Minister Announces Manifesto Pledge at Labour Conference
Prime Minister announces manifesto pledge and historic National Commission at Labour Conference
The Guardian Labour MPs Will Push Burnham to back Voting Reform
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/25/andy-burnham-electoral-reform-first-past-the-post
Labour List Majority of MPs Back Review of Voting System
https://labourlist.org/2026/08/majority-labour-mps-review-voting-system/
Official Resources
Parliament UK Alex Sobel Amendment
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/4080/stages/20676/amendments/10035247
Labour Andy Burnham Conference Speech Transcript
Polling
YouGov Should We Change Our Current British Voting System
https://yougov.com/en-gb/trackers/should-we-change-our-current-british-voting-system
More in Common September MRP Poll
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Nigel Farage said Andy Burnham’s comments about potentially rejoining the EU had given him “the biggest boost in [his] career”. We look at why — even if it seems counter-intuitive — another Brexit debate could actually hurt Farage.
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Farage responds to Burnham’s decision to reopen EU debate
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/01/burnhams-reopening-of-brexit-debate-is-biggest-boost-in-my-career-says-farage
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/30/andy-burnham-uk-could-go-all-the-way-rejoining-eu
British public sentiment on the EU
https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/54925-what-do-britons-think-of-brexit-10-years-since-the-referendum
https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/54567-how-strong-is-uk-support-for-rejoining-the-european-union
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/03/half-want-to-rejoin-eu-and-backing-it-could-drive-up-labour-vote-megapoll-finds
https://www.politico.eu/article/the-politico-poll-britons-want-to-get-closer-to-the-eu-and-even-farages-voters-agree/
Economic impact of Brexit
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/brexits-impact-on-the-uk-economy/
https://www.economicsobservatory.com/how-has-brexit-affected-business-investment-in-the-uk
Reform UK crises
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckly020edl45o
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3v4zvyde15o
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Yesterday, Holborn and St. Pancras headed to the polls to select a new MP (replacing former MP Keir Starmer). With another leader on the ballot, the Green’s Zack Polanski, all eyes were on the race… one Polanski ultimately lost.
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It’s been a few days now, but the UK is still responding to the reverberations caused by Andy Burnham’s bombshell conference speech. But in this video, we’re going to focus on one of his speech’s last topics: the UK-EU relationship.
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Before the Brexit referendum, a whole bunch of MPs explained to Britain how the economy would collapse post-Brexit. While Brexit hasn’t yet happened, some did say that the destruction would take place immediately after the vote; which didn’t exactly happen as expected. So in this video, we explain what’s happened and why the economy hasn’t done too badly in the end.
[1] – shorturl.at/cefrY
[2] – https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotinwork/unemployment/timeseries/mgsx/lms
[3] – https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/bulletins/quarterlynationalaccounts/apriltojune2019
[4] – https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/compendium/unitedkingdomnationalaccountsthebluebook/2019/nationalaccountsataglance
[5] – https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotinwork/unemployment/timeseries/mgsx/lms
[6] – https://www.economist.com/britain/2019/10/31/britains-economy-is-holding-up-well-for-now
[7] – https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/expenditure/bulletins/familyspendingintheuk/financialyearending2018#household-spending-in-fye-2018-was-the-highest-since-fye-2005
[8] – https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/timeseries/dgd8/ukea
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@ivanrozee5712
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
Just back to this video to answer this question: No, it wasn't worth it.
@mvbigmagic4048
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
This video aged very well.
@LewisAPodcasts
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
When you keep people indoors they don't encounter enough bacteria and don't get imunity so when lockdown is over people go out get bacteria and will die more often.
@halohalo505
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
Boomers bought the fearmongering and made the other generations suffer for their comfort.
@donaldkeith139
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
As somebody with 60% lung capacity, I prefer to live, there's still a few things I want to do, but……..
I'd rather die for freedom, than live as the pawn of a tyrannical government.
@calumsteven7070
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
HAHAHAHAHAH You need to revise this video now
@edsknife
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
Is that door supposed to be somebody's house? Keeps reminding me of a funeral home
@edsknife
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
If I didn't scroll past the trusted source banner, then I wouldn't know that this video has a good like:dislike ratio
@ATHFShakeZulah
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
There are far too many people and we have literally fked this planet. We should find a better virus. CCP let this virus go because they knew bleeding heart democracies would be forced to do something about it.
@biggdickman
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
Let me save 14 mins of your time and just say that answering this question doesn’t need a scientist. Loss of economy will damage everyone’s lives a lot more than this virus ever will. It’s a pandemic, people will die, it’s expected. You can’t live with fear. This isn’t ebola, you can recover from it and pretty easily.
@daviddevault8700
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
A life is worth $300,000. Thats what US Government pays for a dead GI
@daviddevault8700
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
It's time to reopen the economy, require masks where possible. We lef the people with a greater than 10% chance of dying stays home. Trump was right
@kutbilukhadia2715
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
If you have prolonged lockdown you lose not only your income but all your savings. You lose your immunity power simply sitting at home. So after a limit of say 4 months ,lockdown is really not helpful.
@kutbilukhadia2715
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
This explanation is very hypothetical.
@AlliYAFF
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
That’s just a monetary figure, and one that I don’t think takes nearly everything into account. It’s also important to note that you are not taking into account how the economic loss might compound over time.
The thing you are clearly missing is all of the values not fulfilled due to the government imposed restrictions. Being alive is not the same thing as living life. That is not a frivolous distinction. Human values outside of “not dying” have long been considered important. We acknowledge this when we donate money to Make-A-Wish so a dying child can enjoy the time that they do have, even if such a thing doesn’t grant that child a longer life. How do we begin to calculate the cost of that?
@adamanderson1979
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
Could you make an update video with any updates on mortality rates (non China data)
@jscott78
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
NZ did it right. The government maintains that ‘the best economic response is a health response’. We eliminated the virus through short term pain (≈ 7 week full lockdown), for long term gain. We now have a fully open domestic economy that’s actually doing pretty well considering the global situation…
@onionpotato3396
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
Actual deaths in the UK are about 93% below the forecast that plunged the UK into a devastating lockdown. The hysterics who are driving the lockdown and tanking the economy have blood on their hands. The corona virus death rate is not 1%. It is about 0.14%, and the average age of deaths is 84.
@Dont_be_Silly
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
Economy is life. You can't unassociate both. Save freedom, people know they risk
@theinternetfanatic8597
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
20,000 deaths, if only it were that low
@ashimsingha1342
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
If that one person who died that could of been prevented due to lockdown was part of your family then I hope that money saved was worth while. There’s time where saving lives matters above all, and doing the right thing is the only thing todo.
@Rory20uk
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
A good effort to quantify many different variables.
The biggest shame is the massive guess of potential deaths – the numbers created by previous pandemics were shown to be massively overrated.
Would those dying definitely be younger in the untreated group? If they were given priority to equipment then this would help mitigate this.
But overall you have to make assumptions somewhere.
@bobriemersma
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
Neoliberal bunk. London bankers run this channel, or what?