Oct 23, 2026 · 42 min · 13 segments
Why is Britain failing? Welfare dependency, rising national debt, government spending and private equity extraction are central to my explanation of the UK’s economic decline. I examine three…
This is how the state creates dependence through increasing numbers of public sector roles and welfare payments.
But when I say the state, I don't just mean politicians.
Those MPs are simply, or those politicians, are simply the latest figureheads that sit atop this larger machine that is constantly churning.
And that's a continuous machine that continues churning no matter which MPs or which political party gets in power.
So you've got the civil service that sits underneath the politicians.
You've got all of the different governmental departments.
So for example, you've got education with all of the public sector teachers, and you've got the civil servants that support that.
You've got the department for education, and then you've got the home office and all these different governmental departments.
And so you've got the workers, the people who work within public sector roles.
You've then also got the civil service.
You've got the politicians.
But that's not it.
You've also got quasi-governmental organizations, so quangos.
And these are entities like Ofcom, Ofsted, the Office for Budget Responsibility, lots of different organizations like that.
Then you've got the judiciary.
You've got countless charities that are all directly connected into the government and take funding for their existence from the government.
You've got many NGOs as well.
So you have this huge network which creates what I call the state.
But you can also refer to it as the establishment or the blob.
What they all have in common is that they are dependent for their existence on money that comes directly from the government that is obtained through tax receipts.
And the core argument that I'm making here is that the state or the establishment, this huge network, actually has itself interest as the top priority.
It's not necessarily the interest of citizens.
So when any crazy announcement or crazy policy position comes out, ask yourself, how does this actually play out from the state's perspective? Because the state is serving its self-interest in terms of protecting itself, gaining power and gaining control over time.
This is how the state creates dependence through increasing numbers of public sector roles and welfare payments.
But when I say the state, I don't just mean politicians.
Those MPs are simply, or those politicians, are simply the latest figureheads that sit atop this larger machine that is constantly churning.
And that's a continuous machine that continues churning no matter which MPs or which political party gets in power.
So you've got the civil service that sits underneath the politicians.
You've got all of the different governmental departments.
So for example, you've got education with all of the public sector teachers, and you've got the civil servants that support that.
You've got the department for education, and then you've got the home office and all these different governmental departments.
And so you've got the workers, the people who work within public sector roles.
You've then also got the civil service.
You've got the politicians.
But that's not it.
You've also got quasi-governmental organizations, so quangos.
And these are entities like Ofcom, Ofsted, the Office for Budget Responsibility, lots of different organizations like that.
Then you've got the judiciary.
You've got countless charities that are all directly connected into the government and take funding for their existence from the government.
You've got many NGOs as well.
So you have this huge network which creates what I call the state.
But you can also refer to it as the establishment or the blob.
What they all have in common is that they are dependent for their existence on money that comes directly from the government that is obtained through tax receipts.
And the core argument that I'm making here is that the state or the establishment, this huge network, actually has itself interest as the top priority.
It's not necessarily the interest of citizens.
So when any crazy announcement or crazy policy position comes out, ask yourself, how does this actually play out from the state's perspective? Because the state is serving its self-interest in terms of protecting itself, gaining power and gaining control over time.
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