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How to Fix the UK Economy
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The UK economy has been struggling for a while now, with growth stagnant despite inflation coming down in recent months. So what factors like productivity and regional inequality holding the country back, what can actually be done to address these issues?
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0:00 Intro
0:51 The 2 Things Wrong with the UK economy
4:52 Solving the UK’s Productivity Problem
8:40 Solving the UK’s Overreliance on London
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As oil drilling moves closer to reality, we explore how it could transform the Falkland Islands’ economy, politics, and long-running sovereignty dispute with Argentina.
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FT Argentina Angered By Prospect of Oil Boom in Falklands
https://www.ft.com/content/ce25f41d-49e2-42e3-956e-dab0de9301e4?syn-25a6b1a6=1
The Times Drilling to go Ahead at Sea Lion Oilfield
https://www.thetimes.com/business/companies-markets/article/drilling-confirmed-sea-lion-oil-field-rockhopper-falklands-5nz8npwpw
The Times Falkland Islands $4bn Oil Bonanza
https://www.thetimes.com/business/economics/article/falkland-islands-4bn-boost-oilfield-go-ahead-6crtkvqzk
Yahoo Finance The Falklands are Turning into a Mini Dubai
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/articles/falklands-quietly-turning-next-dubai-180437990.html
BBC News Quick Guide: The Falklands Economy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/07/in_pictures_the_falklands_economy/print.stm
0:00 How the Falklands are Becoming a Petrostate
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In this video, we’re going to have a look into the Clacton by-election, why the other parties have stood down, what Farage’s plan is, and why it seems like it may have already backfired.
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Telegraph Farage By-Election Gamble Turns to Farce
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/07/07/farage-resigns-but-by-election-gamble-turns-to-farce/
BBC News Farage’s Political Rivals Rule Out Standing in Clacton
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdg4y3g0z7o
The Guardian Political Rivals Vow to Boycott By-Election
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/07/nigel-farage-quits-as-mp-amid-scrunity-over-finances-clacton-reform
Politics Home Labour and Tories Refuse to Field Candidates
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/labour-tories-refuse-stand-candidates-clacton-byelection
Politico Badenoch Says Farage Cracking Under the Pressure
https://www.politico.eu/article/kemi-badenoch-nigel-farage-pressure-by-election/
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@SilverMKI
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
How to fix the economy:
1) Fund public services and ensure their long term provision via expanding provision of training, workforce planning, and good wages and benefits for staff
2) return public utilities and services to public ownership and then do 1 with them
3) focus on infrastructure building; road, rail, housing, internet, water and sewage, 15 minute cities, etc
4) reduce inequality by adding higher taxes to the wealthy and seriously cracking down o. Tax evasion and offshoring profits
5) the UK isnt just london, act like it
@sidkings
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
Exceptionally good video on the state of the UK economy.
@martingump
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
Productivity = The measure of output per person.
Increased migration gave industry a ready supply of cheap labour. There was little incentive for business to invest in mechanisation to improve productivity. It's cheaper to pay immigrants to do the tasks.
Business in the UK also have a very short-term view of investment. I know businesses that won't invest, unless they receive a positive return on the investment inside periods as short as 12 months. This rules out significant investment for mechanisation, as the returns won't be seen for several years.
This needs to change in order for the UK economy to thrive.
@SianaGearz
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
2:44 GORWOTH
@GiacomoSorbi
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
Inequality is not bad per se, despite all the brainwashing for modern academia and media: it is what you get when different people do different choices – having all equal is what happened in places like the soviet-ruled countries, where everybody was equally miserable.
The main problem is still the productivity one and it is strongly driven by having tons of unqualified people hired to do little to nothing, particularly in the public sector, draining a lot of resources from the more productive segments of society; London is so wealthy also because its core (the city) had special fiscal privileges and all the wealth attracted more competitive and prepared people from abroad – the UK education system is a joke aimed at just milking people of their money and producing sloppy, entitled and poorly prepared students.
The German East is still in shambles and depends a lot on funding that are dragging down the whole Bundesland, so try to find another example; poverty is correlated to bad health, but you assume a causation link I would object to: poor people with higher IQ are much less likely to have a series of issues and eventually will manage to raise their income.
@fieldtinny33
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
Step 1 – dont vote conservative in 2024. Easy.
@nickblackshaw9660
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
What I'm picking up from this video is that there needs to be much more government involvement in the economy.
@JumbieLove290
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
Stop pouring billions down the drain that is the most corrupt country in the world, Ukraine…
@anthonymarquez6493
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
Hi, I am a viewer from the U.S. and i kinda have a question why does it seem like in English speaking countries right now it is nearly impossible for political parties to work for the benefit of their people and country. I'm genuinely curious. Here in America, our politics are so divisive.
@remiliascarlet4412
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
2:44 GORWOTH?
@gbvoul
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
basically he blamed the council housing
@liranzaidman1610
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
This was a really good content
@f-empire-8
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
It's actually pretty simple. Start spending your money with BRITISH businesses. Not Amazon, not loads of foreign take-aways, not cheap Chinese knock offs, deport migrants.
@Probablyacowtbh
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
Oh boi, the largest trade bloc on the planet is on our border. I wonder who the fk can figure the rest out.
@jason8077
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
The country has no clear growth model..
@pedroleitao5102
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
Just give england back to Portugal!
@udontknoathing7243
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
Germany got problems they say
@huwgrossmith9555
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
To my way of thinking the UK, US and other nations need a government similarbto the WW II coalition in the Uk focused on fixing the economic mess theyre in. Excluding Keynesians.
@matthewarsenault463
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
I have no opinion on this only a question people keep bashing the UK economy but when I look at GDP figures it looks all right and some people say in the next several decades will overtake Germany and someone outside of Europe I was disappointed that the UK left the European Union I just wonder is this all overblown. like I said these are only questions please do not attack me for my curiosity
@phpn99
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
DRINK LESS ALCOHOL. EAT HEALTHIER
@ironsideeve2955
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
Why are all the 'key' economic indicators about the business or profit side of things?
@iconickid2397
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
Parliament should be dissolved, we should become an absolute Monarchy
@albin2232
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
It can't be fixed. The UK is over.
@utube521
January 7, 2024 at 10:50 am
Brainless for Brexit, Brexit for Brainless. Miserable nazzis wanted to get poorer so let them enjoy it.