The State of Britain - Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 February 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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0:30.9	What worries both of us is that I can't see any real signs of improvement, either culturally,
0:39.3	socially or economically.
0:43.5	You know, I don't think people make this point enough, but the people that we're really screwing over this country are the young. People in this country aren't having enough kids
0:47.5	already. You want to make it harder for them? You want to make it harder for them to get on
0:50.5	the housing ladder? You wouldn't want to be here and be young.
0:59.2	What can we learn from America? What are they doing differently? Why are they growing and we're not?
1:07.6	I see our country as very much somebody who is an addict. We're addicted to mass immigration.
1:14.0	We're addicted to debt. And we're addicted like all addicts to not face up to the truth. Eventually, you're going to hit rock bottom or you die. You've got to stand up for what you
1:19.2	believe, because if you don't, the thing you believe is going to disappear. So a lot of people
1:27.1	in our audience and also our team thought it would be good for us to have a chat.
1:31.7	We did one after our trip to America, reviewing the election and all of that.
1:35.9	Obviously, this one would be just as positive.
1:37.8	Absolutely.
1:38.6	There's so much good stuff to talk about.
1:41.2	What is possibly going wrong in the UK at the moment, apart from quite literally
1:46.9	everything. It seems at the moment that the UK is in a funk and that's not actually what worries me
1:53.8	and I know that's not what worries you. What worries both of us is that we're looking at our country,
2:00.2	the country where we grew up in, and I can't see
2:03.6	any real signs of improvement, either culturally, socially, or economically. And that is a very
2:11.7	worrying place to be in, wouldn't you agree? Well, yeah, so the worrying thing is, obviously,
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