Brits send stark WARNING to Andy Burnham as 'SHOCKING' percentage say Britain is on the wrong path

[00:00:00]Brand new, fresh out of the box prime minister Andy Bernham has taken office facing deep public pessimism. New Ipsos polling is showing that a huge 83% of Britons believe that the country is heading in the wrong direction while only half of you are satisfied with your living standards. Confidence in the NHS has also fallen sharply with just one in four describing health care as good quality. Researchers say Mr. Burner must deliver real improvements to rebuild public trust. So given this record level of public discord, just what advice would you give the new prime minister to repair what many would call broken Britain? Nile Gardner, let me come to you on this. The figures on this poll are genuinely shocking, but not at all unexpected. I think it's it's fair to say this. This is one of these stories. It's like, well, stop the press. The majority of the country are disillusioned. But 83% is huge. Is Andy Burton the man to turn this around?

[00:01:03]>> Uh, hardly, Dev. And uh, this is what socialism does to countries. It destroys them. And Aisha, I just came back from London last night. And, uh, there there's no feel-good factor with Andy Burnham coming in. Uh, it's just more of the same. Far-leftwing socialist policies, outofouch government. In fact, Bernham's not even elected, is he? I mean, he has no democratic mandate and he's the new prime minister of of Great Britain. He has no qualifications uh for the job. Uh it's not surprising that the British people feel so disillusioned with the state of the country. And unless we we have a general election soon, unless the socialists are thrown out of power, frankly, we're not going to see a turnaround in the UK. This this is a nation that was once the world superpower but today is on its knees uh thanks to the ravages of of left-wing socialist rule. And Andy Burnham frankly his entire vision uh if even one can actually make any sense of what he's saying his entire vision really is is third rate. It's backward-looking. He's looking back to the 1970s for inspiration. He's looking even to Neil Kinnick in the 1980s who Margaret Thatcher thrashed over and over again. Uh, and so you've got a prime minister who's literally stuck in the socialist uh, past. And let's not forget what Labour did to Britain in the 1970s, taking Britain to the verge of bankruptcy. In fact, the UK had to go to the IMF for a loan to be bailed out.

[00:02:29]>> I'm joined now by the founder and CEO of Tally Money, Cameron Perry. So, what is Tally Money and what does it do?

[00:02:36]>> So, uh, you get an everyday account in your individual name. You get an account number and sort code. Uh but instead of having an account denominated in pound sterling uh with your bank, you have milligrams of gold, which we brand as tally. The reason why we chose gold, everybody understands gold. It's universally understood and accepted.

[00:02:53]It's been increasing at over 11% on average for the last 25 years against the pound. In the last 2 years, it's up 60% against the pound. So if you had, you know, £10,000 in a tally account 2 years ago, it's now got £16,000 worth of value. The gold hasn't changed, but the value and your purchasing power has. So, banks can't keep up with that performance.

[00:03:15]>> How easy is it to get a tally Money account then?

[00:03:17]>> Um, if you're a UK resident, it's really easy. Uh, just go to your uh go to your app store, download the app. Uh, you'll need photo ID. You can on board yourself in a couple of minutes.

[00:03:27]>> Just your passport, your driving license.

[00:03:28]>> Yep. And you're up and away. So, you know what you're getting. It's very simple. Uh, low fees. Um, it's transparent. There's no hidden fees.

[00:03:36]There's no effect spreads depending on the amount you put in and you just get to go go ahead and be productive in your daily life. Build up your savings again because it's useful to do it. Now >> I was going to say so you're not you don't necessarily people are watching going oh it sounds a bit scary. You can open a tally money account transfer. Is there a minimum amount you have to transfer?

[00:03:56]>> So you might think I'm just going to play with this. I'm going to put 100 quid in it that I've got this month and I'm either going to spend it and see if I feel like I'm getting more value for money from my sale from the things I'm buying or I'm going to save it and watch how that compares to maybe 100 quid in your current account to find out more and to get an exclusive GB News offer.

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[00:04:19]But what do you make of though Nile of the fact that we've only had this Labor government for two years. We had a big C conservative government for 14 years.

[00:04:27]This has been a long time in the making.

[00:04:29]Do you blame the tries as well?

[00:04:30]>> Yeah, they're not without blame either actually. Uh and uh um excuse me. I do think the you know the conservatives failed very significantly on on uh issues such as mass migration, many other issues. They they also uh back policies such as net zero. Fortunately, now the conservatives are moving in a far better direction. And also of course you have reform led by Nigel Farage who who I think uh if if a general election were to be held today, Farage would be the prime minister. Uh reform would be the biggest a single party but but the socialists the socialists of course are far too afraid to go to the polls because they'll get thrashed.

[00:05:06]>> Let's bring in the rest of our panel because I'm sure Benjamin Bosworth for one might feel a little differently um than you Nile. But Ben, the bit that jumped out for me of this survey, I thought the most depressing was only a quarter of people believe that the best people rise to the top regardless of their start in life. Basically, we're talking about social mobility, which I think is a huge issue for every country.

[00:05:31]It should be really on the top top of the list of priorities. in 1989 that figure was 52% felt that those who didn't have the best start in life could rise uh to the top because what does that tell us Ben about how the particularly the young people in the UK must feel about their future?

[00:05:50]>> Yeah, I mean I wouldn't be surprised if part of this is actually the fact that the media is rather more ruthless today and social media than it was decades ago. So there's a bit more cynicism about the people at the top and their backgrounds because we know more about how they get there and some of their rather obvious flaws. But I think it continues to be a big problem. And I think one of the things that people under 40, if we can use that definition of young people, is that their ability to get from a modest background even a poor one into comfort has become a lot more difficult. There has been a generational shift in the cost of basics. You know, the salaries that people earn are more distant from the cost of living. Houses in London, for example, cost 12 times the average income. Uh 12 times the average income.

[00:06:36]Outside of London, it's eight times the average income, which is many times more than it was 20 years ago. And then you have the situation that if you're a new graduate right now and I really feel for people that are currently entering the jobs market because we are going through a revolution in the jobs market partly due to AI and lots of the skilled jobs are disappearing in the short term and so I think the ability to get to the top has become a lot harder and people are not doing better than their parents for the first time in a hundred years.

[00:07:08]Brian, just I just want a quick word from you two both before we bring in our guest. But Brian, just just briefly on this, what do you make of this when you look across the pond and you hear that so many Brits are demoralized, disillusioned, just don't know how to drag themselves up by their bootstraps?

[00:07:23]It's kind of, you know, here in America, is it is it fair to say there is still a sense that the American dream is achievable, that you can still, you know, kind of aim high and do well?

[00:07:32]Well, now it is over the past year and a half that we've had this golden age thrust upon us because of President Trump. The reality is that the challenge that Great Britain has is the same challenge that all of Europe has and all of Western civilization. And indeed, the United States has been engaging with the same challenges over the past 20, 30 years. Look, fundamentally, there are two types of people in the world. There are the makers and the takers, or as some would say, the makers and the destroyers. When you have too many takers and not enough makers to provide the goods and services, to create the innovation, to pay the taxes, you wind up having an economy that's upside down.

[00:08:11]And right now, according to the newest numbers in Great Britain, 52% of the working population is on some kind of support from the federal government. In the United States, that number is also extremely high, but not over 50%. When you have the people that get up every morning and go to work and provide for their families and pay taxes, they look across the street and they see 52% of the population not working, taking food and shelter and healthcare and everything else from all the other people that are creating it. That's extremely demoralizing for the people that actually work hard.

[00:08:49]>> I think I think the I think the 52% figure is not necessarily people who aren't working. It might be that everybody that 50% of people who even even are working are claiming some sort of state benefit. Paul, I think that's the the point to which Brian speaks and there is a sense that we are a country of the makers and the takers and that I think is breeding the resentment we're reading about in this survey.

[00:09:13]>> Yeah, it's an excellent point by Brian.

[00:09:15]I I there is there is a problem and there is a big problem because people on benefits are also people working. a large proportion of that 52% aren't are are contributing but are also taking from the state. Now I have a theory on this and it's Nile will enjoy this. I know he will because we've been able to within our institutions over the last 20 or 30 years really embed on a majority level uh the principles of socialism whilst the business world and those that continue to make the money and also employ lots of people who tell you that socialism is the way forward. the big kind, you know, the the trans flag, etc., etc., are are operating a capitalism. So, they're charging ahead and the majority of society is sat there waiting to be looked after because they've been told that they will be looked after by people who are never ever going to look after them. So, they a trap has been formed probably since Blair, but definitely after Thatcher.

[00:10:14]God rest her soul. Hey, Nile. But uh definitely after Thatcher but since Blair there has been an this this this overwhelming embedment of socialism within all of our institutions to the point that it breeds a society that is waiting to be looked after.

[00:10:32]>> Sorry, can I just say that when Tony Blair became prime minister, the number of people that were unemployed went to record lows. And actually one of the successes of the British economy is that it's had very low unemployment compared to similar economies for 25 years. So this idea that you know we have a weirdly large number of people not working at all is untrue. And you know I don't know the evidence behind the figure 52% but clearly anybody who has a child in Britain and earns under £80,000 I think it is will get child benefit. So that will be a huge number of people.

[00:11:04]And I think the idea to say to someone that's getting a small amount of child benefit because they've become a parent, something we desperately need more of, the idea that that means they're taking and being unreasonable on the rest of us is ridiculous.

[00:11:17]>> Okay. Right. Let me bring in our guest on this, senior analyst and head of campaigns at Onward, Joanna Mong joins me now. Joanna, this survey makes for a very uh bleak reading. Uh good to see you. And what do you make of it? What jumps out at this for you? And does it just confirm what you feel that maybe you already knew about the UK?

[00:11:36]>> I think the, you know, the phrasing in every survey and every poll is always so specific and that's to garner a real kind of idea as to what people are thinking. When they say wrong direction, this isn't, we're not talking about just kind of irrational pessimism. We're talking about a rational read of what people have experienced for the last maybe two decades. That spans over two different governments. We've seen our seventh prime minister in the last 10 years, one that's come in with very little scrutiny. And now we're seeing, you know, day one policies that he's rolling out, almost seem to be echoing more of the same across the board. You know, governments in the UK, we've we've had this awful kind of tradition almost of instead of fixing the problem or fixing the mechanisms of a problem, cover it up, make people feel good.

[00:12:24]That's why you see, you know, more employment support. But why aren't we talking about why people aren't getting employed? Why aren't we talking about businesses being cut off and there's a bottleneck around jobs? You know, cutting student loan repayments. Okay, but why is the student loan not working?

[00:12:38]Why aren't people coming out earning enough to pay back the loan in the first place? Cutting energy bills. Why aren't we figuring out what's wrong with our national grid? What is stopping us from creating more energy reserves, whether that being wind, solar, nuclear? What What are those problems there? And I think everyone now is seeing years and years of stagnant real wages, the worst um productivity growth we've seen in a very long time, maybe since the industrial revolution. And then all the costs are rising whilst we're seeing less for our money anyway. And it's just the real worry with people now where we think we've had Labor government, we've had Tory government, we're now listening very closely. We're heavily we're getting more political as time goes on in four different parties and we're not really seeing much of a difference between any of them.

[00:13:27]And what about these the idea that Bernard might be the person to breathe some life into the economy particularly in relation to small businesses with you know he's spoken about business rates and what he might do particularly for hospitality. you know, are we going to look at a a world in which the high street starts to be revived under Andy Burn and maybe getting some of those younger people off benefits because those are the particular demographics which I think causes most concern. If you're already got your hand out to the state and you're a young person and those jobs you would traditionally do have disappeared, that is a very bleak economic situation that we're heading into. Joanna, do you think Burnham can fix that? Will he?

[00:14:07]>> Well, I mean the problem is is twofold.

[00:14:09]It's not as simple as get the easy jobs open and then everything will be fixed.

[00:14:13]Young people get jobs and we live in a land of honey and milk. I mean, that's not what's happening. Young people have been squeezed out of jobs because the minimum wage equalization and it being rised or the proposed equalization, but it did rise. So, they're too expensive for too little skills and experience. We also have the um employers national insurance contributions skyrocketing. So of course businesses every employee is worth more now and then the employment rights act that came in which makes it even riskier to hire and fire. So that all dumps on a young person particularly but on the employment kind of labor market as a whole. I mean for Burnham to say that he's going to fix people unemployed on benefits especially young people graduates. We had 60,000 uh young graduates on universal income.

[00:15:04]That was that was the universal credit.

[00:15:07]Sorry. Um that was the stat a few months ago. It's probably up now. But there's more factors to it. It's why businesses aren't taking on young workers. It's AI.

[00:15:16]It's a whole range of issues. But for him to just say, "Okay, well, we're going to give them support and give them help. I want to see a fullyfledged plan.

[00:15:23]This is one big area in the UK economy that needs serious work." And it's not something you can just throw money at or it's not something where you fix one aspect and then you leave the rest figure it out. you have to fix it wholesale and wholeheartedly before.

[00:15:40]>> One of the biggest issues and >> I don't I don't think I've heard Andy Bernon talk about this a huge amount so far is about the NHS and this survey is telling us that in 1986 70% of Brits thought that Britain's health care was good quality. And in 2026 it's about a quarter of people in the UK. It's fallen from 70% to about 25%. Think we're getting a good service from the NHS. What's happened there? Is it that the service is that much worse or do people just have higher expectations?

[00:16:15]It's whether Labour actually listened because if you looked down a few months ago when the leadership bids were kicking off and Starmmer holding on to his job kept on making reference to the fact that waiting lists and waiting times were down in the NHS. Well, that's not necessarily true because as it shown, you know, people were people weren't supposed to be on the waiting list. People were dying, so they took those off. It was an admin error and that's what led to the data in itself. I think with the NHS in particular, we're seeing a twofold problem where we've had co appointments were made online, the online um tech and their systems aren't fit for use in the capacity that they need it to be, but they're pushing it as well. And then also, you know, I I wrote about this a few a few months ago. Young people, I mean, there were surveys saying young people would get their diagnosis privately and then go to the NHS for treatment. Obviously, private health care systems in the in facilities in the UK are incredibly small and they are strangled to a point where they can't actually give you different services. So, you're forced to go to the NHS as well, which would be fine if the NHS was working and they have to accept there's a problem in the first place in order to fix it.

[00:17:28]Okay. All right.