From Caesar to Starmer: The Death of a Nation | Freddie New x The Peter McCormack Show

Freddie New is a lawyer, political strategist, and Bitcoin advocate with deep experience navigating the intersection of finance, regulation, and public policy. Freddie has become a compelling voice on the consequences of unchecked bureaucracy, economic mismanagement, and political cowardice.

In this interview, Freddie explains why Britain is starting to resemble a late-stage empire—bloated, directionless, and ruled by a class of careerist technocrats with no experience of the real world. We explore the rising burden of taxation, the collapse of civil service productivity, the surveillance overreach of the state, and why political change alone no longer works. Freddie lays out the case for localism, decentralisation, and Bitcoin as tools to reclaim sovereignty and build something better from the ground up.

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00:00:00 – Introduction
00:02:21 – Public Sector Productivity
00:04:17 – Business vs Government Incentives
00:09:22 – The Case for Flat Taxes
00:15:08 – UK Bitcoin Regulations
00:20:27 – Losing Faith in Government
00:25:53 – The Blob: Britain’s Deep State
00:28:55 – Good People, Broken System
00:31:56 – What Government *Should* Do
00:37:50 – The Civil Service Is a Black Hole
00:40:18 – Japan’s Demographic Collapse
00:43:14 – Fewer Workers, More Welfare
00:44:29 – The Asset Class Divide
00:47:51 – Why Politicians Are Useless
00:52:35 – How Rome Actually Fell
00:58:36 – Coin Clipping and Inflation
01:00:25 – Are We Rome?
01:09:37 – Central Banks and Mission Creep
01:12:43 – Localism
01:18:52 – The UK Holds Billions in Bitcoin
01:21:43 – Strategic Bitcoin Reserves: Good or Bad?
01:24:05 – Final Thoughts
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