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What do you think is the biggest issue faced by the UK? Latest ONS figures have revealed the 'most important issues facing the UK' according to Brits. Number one was cost of living followed by NHS, Economy, Climate Change then Housing. Do Brits agree with this ranking? Is enough being done to help? And what more needs to be done?

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00:00 I think there are a lot of big issues in the world at the moment, but for the UK, I think
00:07 Rishi is correct in trying to sort out the balance of payments and trying to reduce borrowing
00:14 because I feel you can't continue to borrow forever.
00:17 That will just cause an ultimate big problem for younger generations in the future.
00:23 So what we need to do is get working, get exporting and earning money for the country,
00:30 maybe spending less or whatever it takes, but we need to rein in our spending, is my
00:34 view, and that won't be easy.
00:36 Poverty.
00:38 I think we're really struggling and I feel sorry for people with families now.
00:42 It must be really hard for them.
00:45 The biggest concern for me is what's happening right now.
00:47 In my opinion, it's TV and what it's projecting and what it's teaching, what they call the
00:54 woke society.
00:56 We've moved on from the 70s, we can say what we want, do what we want.
01:00 Things have changed now.
01:02 People are very offended by everything.
01:03 You've got to be very careful what you say and what you do.
01:06 People are getting pulled back for historical crimes from the 70s and things.
01:10 It's all changing.
01:11 Society's changing and we don't really understand it now.
01:14 Well, it's obviously the migrants, obviously.
01:17 The lack of control at all.
01:20 No control whatsoever, as far as I'm concerned.
01:25 It's more certainly inflation, isn't it?
01:28 And the fact that people want extra money in their salaries, but then you've got to
01:34 think, well, everybody wants extra money and everybody thinks that they deserve extra money.
01:40 So there's that to it as well.
01:42 There's a, you know, you want to give people extra money, but then the government would
01:46 have to borrow the money in order to do that.
01:49 I'm not going to say that the issues, for example, like homelessness, homelessness is
01:55 going to get resolved because this is the world.
01:57 There's over 8 billion people here in the world.
02:01 So I don't, I used to believe that it would get sorted, but now that I've seen everything,
02:09 I don't know.
02:12 Things like war in other countries, like for example, Ukraine and how Putin is trying to
02:19 disguise himself, you know, because of the war.
02:25 I think the biggest issue facing the UK is the same that's facing the world is that we're
02:30 living in capitalism and it's probably the end days of capitalism because it can't be
02:38 sustained forever.
02:40 So because of that, we've got rampant runaway climate change.
02:45 There's a lot of problems.
02:47 The wealthy have too much money.
02:49 Essentially, that's the problem, in my opinion.
02:52 Corporations don't pay fair tax.
02:56 Private individuals seem to find loopholes to avoid paying tax.
02:59 And it means that people who are a payee have to pay more than their fair share.
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