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I'm back. This is how we fix the UK

2025-07-13 Education
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The UK's economic and political situation is dire. Growing wealth inequality is leading to mass impoverishment, which in turn is leading to the rise of extreme politics. Gary has one message for the government: a wealth tax could start to reverse the situation – and prevent the collapse of our society. He also has message for anyone tempted to vote for Reform (spoiler: stopping immigration won't fix the problem). In this first episode after a three month break, Gary brings us up to speed on everything that's happened in UK economy – and what we need to achieve in the coming months. CHAPTERS 00:00 intro 00:40 Wealth taxes are coming 02:41 Economic and political situation 08:12 The death of centrism and far-right doom loop 12:06 My message to the Labour government 15:12 We can win 17:32 It's an international issue 18:50 Gary talks to Reform voters 20:43 Working class vs middle class 22:16 If you are rich listen to this 24:05 What's next on the channel? VIDEOS MENTIONED Gary's Japanese interview : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os6gBD9sKHU&t=835s&ab_channel=TBSCROSSDIGwithBloomberg Gary's Italian interview : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWq7Al2Uoa8&ab_channel=MarcelloAscani Gary's Portuguese interview 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQMuto9wdg8&t=355s&ab_channel=Despolariza Gary's Portuguese interview 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdkoHha8H4s&ab_channel=BlocodeEsquerda Gary's Swedish interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89l1ZJ8cP7U SUPPORT AND SPREAD THE MESSAGE PATREON - https://patreon.com/garyseconomics GET THE TRADING GAME - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/455809/the-trading-game-by-stevenson-gary/9781802062731 SPOTIFY - https://open.spotify.com/show/2807p01KIe4RRFjRTB5o25 INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/garyseconomics TIKTOK - https://www.tiktok.com/@garyseconomics BLUESKY - https://bsky.app/profile/garyseconomics.bsky.social X - https://twitter.com/garyseconomics FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/garyseconomics DISCORD - https://discord.gg/vqME6WsPd7 WEBSITE - https://www.garyseconomics.org Performed by Gary Stevenson

Top Comments (10)

@Myopia1 2025-07-13

My fear has shifted from a wealth tax never being introduced to it being set up to fail on purpose — designed so badly it’s easy to attack and guaranteed to flop, just so they can say they ‘tried’ while protecting the wealthy. If they do it, it needs to be done correctly — fair, workable, and genuinely targeting extreme wealth. Let’s hope they get it right.

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@JimmyTheGiant 2025-07-13

Its crazy even how much has changed in the last 3 months as you been away

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@archiebakermusic 2025-07-13

"tax wealth, not work" is such a good line. say that some more

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@valerieclaresanders 2025-07-13

I've lived in America, UK, and now Germany, and the same s**t is indeed happening everywhere, as far as I've seen! Your message is needed everywhere. Welcome back! I'm excited to keep fighting. Ps. I want one of those t shirts 😂

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@splintert 2025-07-14

One thing that needs to be pushed harder: fixing inequality isn’t about punishing anyone, it’s about investing in society. Funding healthcare, education, and infrastructure isn’t just redistribution, it creates jobs, stability, and a future people can believe in. If we want broader support, the message has to stay clear: fair taxation means everyone pulls their weight. It’s not envy, it’s basic fairness.

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@kquat7899 2025-07-13

For housing, introduce a bill to stop speculation (domestic and ban foreign ownership) and prevent corporates from buying up family homes.

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@johnpower29 2025-07-13

The establishment is gradually realising that the choice is either taxes or pitchforks.

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@Youbetternowatchthis 2025-07-13

This is so much bigger now than just the UK, but fixing the UK would get the ball rolling everywhere else. Fixing the UK might just start fixing the world.

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@billycampbell6446 2025-07-19

Another idea for a tax proposal besides wealth tax I think may help address the ever rising inequality between the working people and the wealthy people would be to rewrite the tax code for corporation tax: 1. To stop multinational mega corporations who employ people in our country, have customers in our country and make profit in our country from conveniently offshoring that profit to a place where corporation tax is lower (this is important to make point 2 work better, as well as make things fairer for small local businesses against the big businesses) and 2. Radically increase the rate of corporation tax, but offer a tax break depending on how much employees get paid (whether we use lowest employee / contractor pay or median pay or mean pay or whether to use pay per hour or annual income of employees is a detail to be figured out to make sure this idea isn’t easily gamed by a business that wants to dodge tax) as this means that a company is financially incentivised to pay more to employees and contractors (I.e. working people) than focusing on minimising pay in order to maximise profits (which is forced upon businesses with shareholders as a legal requirement by the shareholders) as now the way to maximise return for investors may require increasing pay to some higher optimal level to stay profitable while reducing their new, higher, corporation tax bill, so the portion of money made by the company going to shareholders (I.e the wealthy people) will be driven down somewhat. This proposal shouldn’t be thought of as an alternative to wealth tax, but in conjunction with wealth tax instead.

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@MGriffo-f4d 2025-09-04

MP suggestion , Richard burgon or Clive Lewis?

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