The Truth Behind The Fall Of The UK - Rory Stewart

Rory's apologism and dismissal of the concerns of Islamism is everything that is wrong with modern Britain.

If only Rory wasn’t blind to Islamism in the U.K.

The “humiliation” of the failures in Afghanistan did not cause the public to lose faith in government. Rather, its was the same corruption and incompetence which caused the failure in Afghanistan being seen here at home. The real lesson of Afghanistan is that the same people who were in charge of nation building there for twenty years have been in charge of nation building across the West for even longer. Once you understand that, you understand why everything is a mess and no one trusts the government anymore.

The irony of a man involved in 2 murderous wars windbagging about mean tweets is beyond belief

Sick of people who have been deeply involved in politics calling UK/US/NATO operations in places like Iraq and Afghanistan "failures". The billions of dollars went somewhere. They went out of taxpayers' hands to weapons manufacturers, military equipment manufacturers, private security contractors, reconstruction contractors and many more entities. Look at where many US politicians and advisers (and probably UK ones too) who make the decisions to go to war invest their money. You will see that these operations were HUGELY SUCCESSFUL in transferring public funds into private hands. The chaos caused and perpetuated by these so-called "failed" military operations is hugely profitable. We are not all idiots born yesterday.

A prisoner in a USSR gulag is asked what he is there for. He says: I was a plumber, got called to fix pipes in Kremlin. I looked at the pipes and I said - the whole system here needs to change. Got 10 years hard labor.

Hello you savages. Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ Here's the timestamps: 00:00 Current Atmosphere in Afghanistan 04:27 The Incompetence of Western Leaders 15:36 What’s Happening to the UK? 19:53 Do Politicians Only Care About London? 33:06 The UK’s Biggest Problems 37:26 Should We Be Worried About Free Speech? 45:37 How Bad is Extreme Poverty in 2024? 51:38 The Pitfalls of Organised Charities 58:02 Why Poverty Hasn’t Improved in Africa 1:03:23 How Effective Altruism Impacted Charity 1:07:23 Where to Find Rory

The beauty of free speech on long form podcasts is people expose who they really are

How about try the thing the British public have been telling politicians for 2 decades and get immigration under control, we need wage growth, and we don’t get that with an oversupply of cheap labour.

I am British living in the Netherlands for the last 30 years and every time I go back to the uk, I can’t get over with how little has changed. The same roads same trains, a society stuck in a ramshackle house with no money to modernize. A huge contrast to tge Netherlands where infrastructure is continuously improving, companies expanding and improving living standards. Yes there are issues in the NL mostly coming from the EU. Hospitals, restaurants, shops, etc are generally staffed by Dutch people, why isn’t this possible in the uk.