>>17470894>What happened to the UK? You can probably mean England + Wales, Scotland and NI are doing fine-ish now
Chronically low productivity since, like, the end of WW2 (unlike the other countries, the UK had an empire as a crutch for a long time so there were no reforms, additionally the post-war recovery was for some reason much longer than France, Germany, and other western occupied countries)
No real exports since coal was dead and there's no real food industry in the UK
Thatcher killing off all of Northern England just for the sake of GDP points (around London and the South East), plus killing off all public services like gas and electricity
An entire economic model based on being the entry point for corrupt oligarch money in the EU (which only benefits London)
And since 2008, 12 years of Tory rule, corruption, austerity, and just downright incompetence made worse by the fact that we can't even use EU funds as a crutch for the under developed regions
Like how energy bills stratospheric increase is entirely due to the fact that our energy sector is more privatised than even the US's
It's bad out there
