How Britain Became a Poor Country

Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: Watch my Nebula-exclusive class “How to Research Like a PhD Student“: 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. Support my work on Patreon at Twitch: Twitter: Instagram: Patreon: Website: Select footage courtesy of Getty Music from Epidemic Sound