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Britain Is a Dump [video]
- boznz 2y agoOn the bright-side, comedians have so much more material to work with these days.
- OliveMate 2y agoThe title is too clickbait for my tastes and I found it a tad too dismissive – but a lot of what it touches on paints a clear image of why things here feel increasingly bleak, and that's without the multiple crises currently wracking the country. And the sad thing is that a simple change of government won't try to fix it until it's impossible to fix because of how rooted some of these issues are. A key example being HS2. How much taxpayers' money was wasted over HS2, buying up land & property over the last few decades only for it to be scrapped and for money to be spent on potholes instead[0]. Can't wait for people to cry out for high speed rail infrastructure in the next few decades for us to restart it, then scrap it when it becomes 'unaffordable' A factor that isn't mentioned regarding infrastructure is Technological/Infrastructure Lock-in. Britain was a pioneer in industrial infrastructure, but being a pioneer means that you make the mistakes others learn from and avoid – and replacing the obsolete with better technology takes time and money. [0] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/revealed-the-roads-being-resurfaced-in-your-area-thanks-to-reallocated-hs2-funding https://www.gov.uk/government/news/revealed-the-roads-being-...
- blast 2y agoLast time we got punk rock, maybe something like that will come of it.
- jschveibinz 2y agoWow. Just wow. If even half of this is true I am at a loss.
- punkbit 2y agoThe author has a good sense of humour. So sad though! General elections happening soon, wonder what’ll happen next