Why the UK’s Regional Inequality is Getting Worse

Back in 2019, Johnson led his campaign by focusing on two things: Brexit and 'Levelling Up,' the later positioned as a solution to regional inequality. But nearly five years later, regional inequality seems to have gotten worse, so, in this video, we're going to take a look at why it's gotten worse and whether it can change.

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00:00 - Introduction
00:41 - Context
02:22 - It's Getting Worse
04:43 - Can It Change?
06:53 - Sponsored Content

[hannahlarge]

"Move the house of lords to Stoke" is my new favourite terrible plan for wealth equality.
It'd work too, but only because the Politicians would get mugged so often.

[scitchmunkey]

Front of our local paper this week is how our council is annoyed at wasting so much time applying for a 25 mil leveling up grant that supposedly never existed

[KamiInValhalla]

The government is not serious in fixing it. If they were, thet would have started building HS2 in Leeds instead of London. That would have forced them to finish it.

[TheSuperPsychoKiller]

UK is stuck in the Victorian times but with more technology to constantly be reminded of how unequal everything is.

[Justin-jhym]

The rest of the UK is in decline the ones in power will not notice as they don't venture beyond Watford.

[krisdaschwab]

Whenever anyone asks "Why is getting worse" and it applies to the UK, the answer is always the same. I'll give you a hint: It rhymes with the Whories.

[mrmr]

'First began around 1979' why leave out who came to power that year? Looks like 'trickle-down economics' has always been a con.

[gort]

Excluding London, England has a lower GDP per capita than the poorest US state

[peteradaniel]

It’s called tax and spend. Start taxing wealth properly and spending responsibly. No more public private partnership. Stop throwing public money into the private sector while paying for Labour/ Tory donors. Spend it responsibly on public services.

[jamesbishop]

Confidence. The UK has given any investor (internal or external) zero incentive in the past 2 decades to invest in the UK outside of London. Wether it be multiple snap elections, the Brexit referendum or awful budgeting decisions, there is no one willing to risk theier money to invest in the UK. The wealth doesn't even stay in London either, it just passes through it. Suits the government just fine mind you, as most MPs live in London anyway rather than their actual constituencies.

[flannigan]

Another issue living in the northeast is people from London and Southeast using their often higher income to invest in houses here for renting. It’s lead to fewer houses being available to buy and caused the prices of those to rise, out of touch landlords have also left rent amount soaring

[georgeykitheka]

Seems this isn't a video about the UK, just England. Would've been interesting to learn about inequalities in Wales, N.I and Scotland.

[Cosmicmayo-v]

Can you please stop calling it the UK in the title then only talk about England when us up here in Scotland are neglected by news and government

[American_Psycho]

Would love to see how Cornwall is accounted for with wealth inequality, when you discount all the super wealthy buying homes in Rock or Newquay.

[Tommyleini]

One big issue is companies like TLDR News moving from the north like Loughborough to London, and dragging talent from Loughborough down to London and the south east.

[dr.seesaw]

Woah that's so weird how inequality started to rise so dramatically at the start of the 1980s I wonder what political event happened around that time to leave such a lasting impact

[gerpinoemo]

Even in this it's very England centric and barely talks about Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

[jakkuwolfinsomnia]

What a terrible attitude to governing a country, take everybody’s money but only give it back to the richest regions.

We are supposed to be the UNITED Kingdom, the immoral behaviour of the Tories is absolutely disgraceful.

We should move forward together or not at all

[brucemorland]

Should be retitled England's regional inequality.

[ArtemisShanks]

The UK still has ‘nobility’ (dukes, counts, barons, etc) that inherit vast land and wealth, and it’s somehow news that wealth inequality is rampant?