
Who Benefited from Britain's Empire? w/ Kojo Koram
A World to Win with Grace Blakeley
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Social Democracy in the United Kingdom
So much of the construction of the atley welfare state was funded and supported by the accumulation of imperial wealth. The attempt to try and impose social democracy in one country, whilst allowing finance capital to run rampant in the colonies created a situation where twen, 30 years later, we now see the fragmentation of the social safety net here in the united kingdom. We now see a lot of the canins inequalities and and economic insecurities that were normal in the global south becoming increasingly normal right here in the United Kingdom as well.
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