I'd be very curious to see the desperate state you are talking about.

For physical infrastructure, there are certainly less well maintained areas and historical policies causing issues, but I'm not aware of any areas that are structurally/physically unsafe.

There are 'rougher' areas, places where theft is more likely but very, very few areas that are genuinely unsafe to walk through. The only ones I'm really aware of are two very small areas in London (basically 2-3 buildings) and certain kinds of traveller camps.

For pretty much everything else, it seems to be on par with other European nations - generally behind the Nordics of course.

Share the videos - I'd love to understand where you are coming from.

Clips don't tell you anything. The UK is suffering in the same way as every other developed country outside of the US and China - low growth that isn't propped up by booming AI and demographic issues.

Sounds like you spend too much time watching clips on the internet.

viz.: they let in a bunch of low-quality people, and now they have to deal with it.

In the long run they're still way ahead because they exploited those "low-quality" people for centuries, extracting all their labor and material resources for virtually nothing.

It's actually not at all clear that the British colonial empire was a net positive economically. It's also not always the case that they were exploiting the people, rather than the mineral deposits etc.

It also wasn't "centuries". The British Crown ruled India (which at the time contained Pakistan and Bangladesh) for less than a century, for instance.

Wasn't that the marketing canpaign for brexit? The EU is sending all these people in, we want out?

That was Poles, this is Pakistanis.

I have been following this thread for a long time. The UK is poor, simply put, but it has taken a long time to realize it. But the chickens are coming home to roost now. The blame is primarily the rich and immigrants. The real problem is socialism and heavy taxes, plus a denigration of entrepreneurs and business owners. They will learn, once everything has gone to utter shit

> The UK is poor, simply put

That's far too simply put

The UK has incredible wealth, it is just more concentrated than ever in a few select pockets

Yes like I said you have the socialism take and your enemy is the rich. You will learn eventually

Capitalism and socialism are both pretty effective at killing competition and rewiring the government & economy to seek extractive rents. Granted, it takes longer with capitalism.