America 250 w/Englishman Ben Harris Part One

For the 4th of July and reviving an old tradition, Host Andrew sits down with our man in Westminster, Ben Harris, for the 4th of July episode. Ben (soccer jersey and all) breaks down why Britain can't build anything due to a planning system where NIMBYs hold veto power over housing, energy, even supermarkets, and how an entire generation of young Brits is getting crushed by it. They dig into the UK's revolving door of PMs, the "triple lock" pension time bomb, Starmer's political faceplant over winter fuel payments, the differences in free speech in the UK and America, structural issues and how politics not only can't fix them but makes the situation worse. Plus how the UK's issues connect back to America: same structural rot, just a bigger economy buying us time. If you want to understand why the UK feels stuck, and how America needs to pay attention to avoid the same traps, Ben Harris and Andrew Donaldson lay it out and more on Heard TellWatch the full video here:https://open.substack.com/pub/heardtell/p/the-economy-but-in-plain-language?r=17xga&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true--------------------Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxhttps://www.heardtellmedia.comQuestions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us HeardTellShow@gmail.comPlease follow @HeardTellShow like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others.Support Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donationsAll that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.--------------------Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxhttps://heardtell.substack.com/Questions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us HeardTellShow@gmail.comPlease follow @HeardTellShow like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others.Support Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy