
Aldo Sterone delivers a one-person French-language monologue arguing that the United Kingdom is in severe social, political, and economic decline. He cites rising crime in London, a corruption scandal involving MP Tulip Siddiq, a collapsing public healthcare system (difficulty accessing GPs), rising taxation and wealthy emigration, and critiques of post-Brexit governance and growing state dirigisme.
Good evening, my friends. You've been hearing about bad news from the United Kingdom, and I have a front row seat to tell you about it. No pun intended. I live every day and we have more and more extraordinary news. So today I picked up the Financial Times. There you have it, The Financial Times, an extremely respectable, straightforward newspaper. I'm saying this because I have some press on my back, don't I? That's enough. Okay? What I'm doing is today I've decided to start giving my sources a little bit. And look, we're talking about an extremely respectable source. So what do we have? Here's a little article that would almost go unnoticed, but which is so revealing about the state of the country. So first of all, it says that Mr. Sadiq ran the mayor of London, isn't it? He was ordered to leave by the King. Why? Because, well, it's on his account. He hasn't left yet. But we understand each other in thanking him for having transformed London into a slum, for having transformed the lands into the capital of crime, of organized crime, but also organized crime. We've always had that in the United Kingdom. But now we also have disorganized crime. I'm talking about people on scooters who steal phones, who knock down passersby who steal. I'm talking about gangs that are rife in certain neighborhoods. So thanks to this mayor, the city has now become almost uninhabitable in some places. I'm not talking about the posh neighborhoods, the bourgeois neighborhoods where a parking space costs more than an average house in this country. And these people will tell you what's going on in London. We haven't seen anything at all. Yes, they generally don't see anything. They're usually the last to see. It's a bit like first class on the Titanic while it's sinking. While the people in the lower aisles, which were already full of water, were running around, the people in first class were there with their cigars, the porter and all that. So why the panic? Well, it's true that the lounge is a little tilted. It's true that I have to hold my glass on the table. But apart from that, I don't see why they're panicking so much. It's always the same story. Those who are usually there when there's a problem, and this is perhaps also the real injustice, the fundamental injustice of our system is that you have the least influence, those who are the least influential in politics, in terms of governance and management of the country, it's the people at the very bottom of the social ladder. They're the most vulnerable members of society. Those who struggle, they don't influence anything at all. They suffer. Who really have an influence, it's the wealthy and influential classes. Right? But who suffers the consequences of politics? Who has suffered it? Well, it's suffered first and foremost by the people at the very bottom. So you see, you see the problem. This is perhaps the biggest democratic deficit that we have. It means that politics is made by the wealthy, but suffered first and foremost by people who are ultimately speechless. And then these people who are speechless when they sometimes express themselves, when they sometimes go to the polls, when they organize, when they become yellow vests, for example, well, they are vilely hanged. They are treated by everyone. The police are sent to deal with them and all that. You see, you see, you, you see people. Well, I was saying that this Duran was ennobled by the King of England. For those. I'm just saying this, I'm saying this for those who think that the United Kingdom is protected, because I thought it for a time, I don't think so anymore, but I thought it for a time I thought that the United Kingdom was more or less preserved thanks to its caste, right royal, who will protect the country. Because in the end, King Charles will leave the country. It's almost like private property. He will leave it to his descendants. So it's not like a politician who has a short sighted view, in the end, he doesn't plan from term to term. It's literally from life to life. You know, it's heredity that we're talking about. So these people, we can imagine that they have a long term vision and they wouldn't like to, uh, propagate, you know, to their descendants or give their descendants a country that would resemble Haiti, wouldn't it? Well, no. Well, no. This reasoning that I just made, which is very, very attractive on paper, do you hear it? You say yes, but he's right. No, I'm not right. I'm wrong. Because, well, for some there's a formal aim, how do you say it in this line of reasoning? So now I'll tell you another story that proves that this country is really going to hell. So here. So I was saying in the Financial Times, we have a certain tulip with a p at the end. Tulip. Tulip Siddiq. So Tulip Sidanui. Tulip Siddiq. So who is she? Uh, Tulip Siddiq is a member of parliament and she's a minister. So she's part of the British treasury and imagine that. And I assure you, sometimes I feel like I'm dreaming. But I assure you, it's written in black and white in the Financial Times. Well, the pages of the Financial Times aren't white. It's a sort of champagne pink. There you go. Ah. She's in charge of anti corruption. Hem. She fights corruption. So imagine that. The problem is that she's in a scandal, a big scandal. Why? Because Tulip Siddiq, who was originally from the United Kingdom, but she is originally from Bangladesh. Well, she is the niece of the Prime Minister, the former Prime Minister. Her aunt was actually Prime Minister of Bangladesh. There you have it. So we are, my friends, we are deep in a family affair. So this woman, this sinister woman with her sinister party who was deposed. Well, today there is a big commission of inquiry and we think that there are fans missing from the till. You know, we are in a fight. There is a shortage of 4 billion, 3.9 billion pounds sterling. We are talking about 4 and a half billion euros. I am telling you this offhand, I am not going to check the exchange today. But this woman who is in the UK anti corruption service, she is like a shirt with her aunt, but also with the party of her tent that she promoted here. And on top of that, she benefited from housing in extremely expensive properties. Because you have to know one thing. The dictator, the corrupt one, has a weakness for real estate. So in fact, there are a certain number of billionaires who gravitate around the expectation that was Prime Minister, right? And then who, through offshore companies, received a large real estate portfolio that came out in his dough. I don't know, probably they saved their salary, right? You know, your dad must have told you when you were little, you see, if you buy less ice cream, you save on coffee, you save on candy. Well, what's going to happen, huh? You're going to become a billionaire. That's how it works. You spent billions. You know, we're all billionaires and we spent our billions on candy. Like, right, the candy seller, he's a billionaire. And in fact she benefited from their generosity. She took advantage of her apartments. So now there is an investigation, There is an investigation into her. But what can I tell you, my friends? I can tell you this. This is the daily life of this country. It means that today we have gangs, often ethnic gangs. And I would say that they deal with money, but we have gangs that do much more serious things. But unfortunately, there are more, if you like, more roles. The state has abandoned all its sovereign roles. And this is not something that Started yesterday, the state here in the United Kingdom did not take its sovereign roles very seriously. But today, the only sovereign role that interests it is taxation. So there is an increase. You know that the United Kingdom at the time was practically an offshore jurisdiction. It is practically a tax haven today. It is a tax hell today. The United Kingdom, my friends, if you want to come and live here, there are people who tell me, I would like to come and live in the uk. So let me tell you something. What is the value proposition of the United Kingdom? If you want to live in a country that has Scandinavian level taxation, but public services on the level of an African country emerging from civil war, you have the United Kingdom. That means you come, you pay, you pay, you pay, you get nothing in return. Okay, my friends, when I say this kind of thing on Twitter or on X, excuse me, I'm from an older generation, I say Twitter. I'm telling you something. When I tell you that, for example, the medical system has collapsed. I had a Swede, I had a Frenchman. Yes, Aldo, you know, here it's collapsed too. You, you know, we're like England here. Realize that to see a gp, I had to wait a month to see a gp. My friends, we're not talking about the same thing. When I say this, I'm not being too strict. Do you understand? Look, 15 or 20 years ago, you had to wait a month to see a GP in the UK. Today I haven't seen a GP since 2019, I assure you. Before COVID And it's not that I have an appointment in a month. There are no appointments at all. I can call them one day in advance. We can make an appointment one day. I can call a GP to ask for an appointment, not a gp. And if you're registered with a gp, that's the one at no, that's the one at nothing. Okay? When you call them, they don't answer the phone. And we have, what we call in this country, the 8am lottery. So we. What is the 8am lottery? It's like this. There are politicians who say we have to abolish it, even for the time being. That's it. When you call, well, if you're lucky, they answer, you know, and usually they don't pick up. So they call all day long for several days and all that. Once they pick up, you know what they're going to do. Your secretary is very cold. I think, you know, in many companies and all that, when you recruit someone who deals with the public, you try to recruit someone who is friendly, who is Approachable, who has empathy, who knows how to talk, who smiles. It's important. It's important everywhere. On the other hand, in the medical sector, we recruit people for these positions who could have ended up, I don't know, like Jolie or, for example, in a prison. So, very coldly, she'll tell you to call tomorrow on Twitter. If you try to negotiate, say, call tomorrow on Twitter. You feel like you're having a robotic voice. That's why I'm telling you, my friends, the game of people saying yes, some jobs will be replaced by artificial intelligence. I look forward to the day when some jobs will truly be replaced. It will be a blessing. There is more humanity in a program than in many of the humans around us. They have been dehumanized, haven't they? So I'm telling you, if you imagine that you are looking for a negotiation, you say, yes, but it's urgent. If you say it's urgent, she'll say, call the emergency services immediately, ask for an ambulance, slap. Hang up if you say, no, but it's not urgent, period. So call between tomorrow, Twitter and never. It's automatic. They have a script like that. So I'll tell you something. You call on Twitter. So when you call Twitter, the lists are already busy, but there's nothing. So if you end up talking to someone at 9:01, they'll tell you, uh, it's over, we're not available between 8 and 9. You have to call the next day. If you get someone between eight and nine, I mean, you have to try for weeks. They might give you the appointment. They might tell you it's too late, they've all left. That's the lottery. Our health, our life. In the end, because many people have died playing this lottery, I'm lucky, blessed. I'm in good health today. But one day, if I get sick, they'll let me die. We're among the OECD countries. We're the country where people die from little things, from preventable diseases. So when you tell me that things are getting worse in France, why am I trying to warn you? Why am I trying to issue a warning? It's to tell you that if you see that things are going to hell where you are, and that you need a month to find a doctor's appointment, now is the time. It's high time to ring the bell, because the day will come when, in even five years, you won't have a doctor's appointment. Things are collapsing here. They have collapsed. So the state never takes things seriously here. It's the powers of the egalitarians. As I told you, the only power that the egalitarians are interested in is taxation, which is currently to explode. So that's what we're seeing. Seeing a mass exodus. That's the word used by a lot of sources, mass exodus. Everyone who can has already left. And in particular those who are leaving are wealthy people, not the millionaires in particular, who suddenly find themselves in hostile territory and are starting to leave. So the hostility comes from two things. First, the increase in taxes. For example, in recent years, corporate taxes have gone from 19% to 25%. That's a huge increase. You see, it's almost a third of an increase. Let me add another one. The problem with people who have fortunes is that what do they need? They need vision, they need visibility, they need to be able to know what to do in which direction they're moving. Now, when you have a country that changes its laws every three months, that is increasingly hostile, you feel that it, the state feels like it wants more and more money and believes it has an absolute right to suck up people's money, work and savings. It believes it's an absolute right. There are people in France who tell me, yes, the state can take savings. How can I protect them? You can't protect it. You can't protect savings. Here's the answer I give you. So of course you're going to go see economists on YouTube. They're going to tell you, yes, So I recommend a tax free portfolio with. I don't know. No, no, no, that doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. Let me explain why you're playing against a state that can change the rules whenever it wants. That's the problem. It's not like you're playing with fixed rules. In that case, yes, in that case, those economists would be right. Yes, that's it. The rules are fixed. That's what I do. That's what I do. Today you have a state that can send you to a tax loophole and then it cancels it on January 1st and then taxes you and then it ends and you go somewhere else and it catches up with you and so on, because it considers that it has an absolute right to take all your money and waste it as it wants, give it as it wants. It can go, as I showed you here, it can literally go to the dog. That's it. As it wants. It gets the message. It, it gets it. It gets it. It can take the most rotten ones, can't it, and put them in charge of managing the Fund. There you have it. It's the wolf guarding the sheepfold. So what do you want me to tell you? We are in a complete collapse. That means that today, Today, if I do the. And it has nothing to do with Brexit. Well, where Brexit is for me, Brexit, if you like. In 2016, it gave me a glimmer of hope. I told myself it was an awakening. It was a new consciousness, a new one that was dawning. Maybe the country would become aware of a certain number of issues today and decide to move towards another way of managing its destiny. And I really believed it today. Today I can tell you it's a complete, complete, complete, complete failure. And it has nothing to do, once again, with the Brexit. It wasn't Brexit that caused this to fail. Brexit, if you like, was a catalyst. In what sense? Uh, two things. Maybe this is where the conspiracy side comes in. Uh, maybe they want to punish us for what we've done wrong. It means, okay, these people have decided to rise up against the imperial forces represented by the European Union. Okay, fine. You want your freedom? Okay, take your freedom. But we're going to show you everything that was under the European Union. You're going to see it. But multiplied by 10. That's exactly what's happening here. So there's a kind of punishment? Of course. Why am I telling you this like that, in inverted commas? Because I don't have anything to prove it. I can see it. The reality is that we're really taking a beating. I think the mistake we made, and I say this with all due respect, of course, I'm telling you, I'm experiencing it from the inside. I'm telling you, I think that before Brexit, we should have really cleaned up our elite. Why? Because we had an elite that was twisted, but that was more or less attached to the European Union. I'm not saying that the European Union isn't twisted. It is too. And that's not it. The European Union, which is evil. Sure, they are evil. Sure, they have a negative impact on the country. But at some point, it's a mafia. At some point, we told another local mafia, we're freeing you from Brussels. And now you have the keys to the house. You can do whatever you want. And this time they're given free reign. That means all the problems they create for us within the European Union, well, they now have the opportunity to multiply them by 100. That's the idea. While it's a real, real collapse. There you have it day by day. What do you see day by day? For example, day by day you have liberticidal laws that are constantly being passed. Liber societal laws, practically all the time. All the time. Laws that don't just restrict freedom in the sense of restricting speech, they can restrict your movement, restrict the possession of certain things. State control. State control is a form of loss of freedom. Right? When I was young in Algeria, I remember the IMF and the World bank coming down on us and telling us we have to stop centrally planning the economy, stop civil servants being dirigiste. Let the market be free. Let the market economy be free. I'm getting here gradually. I can tell you that today in the United Kingdom, there's more dirigisme than there was in the ussr. In Algeria, I assure you, dirigisme today has reached stratospheric levels. Here it means that the state now considers that it has the absolute and total right, as in the ussr, to decide who buys what and who doesn't. You invest here. You. You put money there. It considers that means the money it leaves you. Look, you have galloping taxation. And the money it leaves you the crumbs you have left. It considers that it has a right to oversee it, and it must decide how you invest it or spend it. I mean, this is the dirigisme that has sunk entire countries. And we are in the process of embracing it. Not in the process of embracing it. We are deep in it. There you have it, my friends. This is how it is and no other way. This country has gone to hell.
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