New Coinbase ad About Broken Britain Shows We’ve Become the Laughing Stock of the World
The Coinbase cryptocurrency company has produced a satirical advertisement to support the idea of reforming the financial system in the UK on the grounds that it isn’t working for most people.
The style is an homage to the celebrated Lionel Bart musical Oliver!
According to the Telegraph, the result is a video that mocks Britain as a rat-filled dump riven by decay, filth, redundancy, and people in dire financial jeopardy.
Titled Everything is Fine, the video opens with a man in a leaking house and a woman drowning in bills as cheery lyrics proclaim: “We ain’t got no troubles, no reason to complain because here in Great old Britain, we just love it when it rains.”
It continues: “Morning! We’re cosy here at home, even though it’s not our own, but wait a few more years, and who can say? Everything is just fine.
“Everything is grand. Your life can get no better when you’re living by the letter in this pleasant land. Everything is just fine.”
The advert appears to echo a survey by Lancaster University’s Work Foundation, which found that one in six UK workers said they were struggling to pay their bills each month.
The poll revealed that four in 10 said they had little income left for savings or holidays, and less than half believed wage growth was keeping up with the cost of living.
The advert then shows rubbish piling up on streets with rats, appearing to relate to the ongoing bin strikes in Birmingham, which started in March. Unite and Birmingham City Council has yet to reach an agreement in talks.
The song goes on: “Everything is great. The streets can’t get no cleaner. Or the rat meat any leaner. No, life is just first rate.”
Worth reading in full.
Satirical it may be, but it works because there’s a chilling and familiar sense of authenticity about it.
You can also watch the video here.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
I think it’s brilliant. Of course it’s exaggerated, but so was Dickens.
Yes, everything’s just fine because we’ve got a PAKISTANI MUSLIM Onay Kasab as National Lead for Unite the Union, pushing the Birmingham Binmen’s Strike and speaking for Britain’s Binmen. Kasab’s parents were born in the village of Faridkot, Pakistan, the same village as Muslim Terrorist Muhammad Ajmal Amir Kasab of the same clan, who killed 72 people in the 2008 Mumbai Terrorist attacks.
And now we’ve got Heroic Patriot Tommy Robinson announcing that he has just joined a political party founded and led by PAKISTANI Benyamin Naeeb Habib, born in Pakistan, who came to Britain when he was 14 years old, and now wants to be Prime Minister illegally, and claims to represent British Patriots, and even English Patriots. And our Tommy is urging all British Patriots to join, and help make the PAKISTANI MILLIONAIRE who HATES NIGEL FARAGE become the next Prime Minister.
Sadly, this fits in with Tommy’s bizarre claim years ago that “Sikhs are the Most English of the English!”
Can things get any worse?
Can things get any worse?
Oh, yes, they certainly can.
There’s a great deal of ruin in a nation. Adam Smith
Yes, because now you’re getting a load of Gazan ‘kids’ ( that’ll be the Hamas version of ‘children’, that are basically indoctrinated jihadist youths running around stabbing and shooting Israelis, because ‘martyrdom’/’pay to slay’ ) sent over, strangely bypassing more suitable countries ( why not the Muslim and rich UAE or Qatar? ) because your NHS is seemingly not under enough strain as it is. And you know full well that once they arrive they and their families will be granted asylum. But I’m sure Prevent will have it all under control;
”NOW HERE COME THE GAZANS
300 kids to be evacuated from Gaza war for NHS treatment
How long before human rights laws allow 1000s of their family members to join them?
And why won’t neighbouring countries provide care? Why is it always Britain?
We hear all the time that the NHS is “broken”. Yet it can magically absorb 300 Gazan children. This obviously means British children will be pushed down the queue
It is abundantly unfair & clear evidence of a two-tiered NHS where foreigners come first”
https://x.com/MartinDaubney/status/1951928939523330342
If they are real children, and not the usual bog-standard bearded 40-year-old men claiming to be teenagers so they can sit next to your daughter in school.
Things are only just getting started. Wait till the financial crash.
Oh, thanks— so there’s that to look forward to…
That’s cheered me up no end. :/
Only when it gets really bad, will people wake up and accept drastic changes. Probably not long to wait now.
The crash will occur before the end of 2026.
Who will implement those changes?
Oh Yes! as Churchill said
Spot on, they are correct.
I see nothing satirical.
Socialism always achieves this. On the current tweedle dum tweedle Dee cycle of Uniparty the socialism has a clear run since 1992.
So several clues there
This is an add for a cryptocurrency, what do others think they are being told in this ad?
Actually, the rest of the world does not give a stuff
Many a true word spoken in jest.
Although things are bad, that video was so typically English! Making light of and laughing at things!
Thanks to a link in the DS yesterday,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3h49O0AGxx0 , I listened to this podcast by triggernometry in which Professor of War studies at Kings College London David Betz explains his view that we are heading for trouble.
The 3 conditions for civil war he mentions are:
It is a long podcast, but well worth a listen.
David Betz is a Professor of War in the Modern World at King’s College London.
https://overcast.fm/+ABFtd4mnSpw
Looks like gold is now locked in to being valued at £2,500 plus per/ounce – funny thing that how gold, journeys and beer are about the only imperial measurers commonly remaining.