It's kind of amazing after doing the absolute most extractive colonialism around the world, slave trading and genocides and ruination of land and societies just *looted* into the isles, the Brits have managed to squander everything so much in the last 70ish years that they've turned themselves into a backwards, increasingly poor nation. They've thrown the richest empire the world has ever known away to become a broke rump nation on the edge of Europe, with literal shit in the water supply.