The UK can go back to being the richest country in the world
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#3Betteridge's law of headlines honorary mention.
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I consider this being flagged as grossly unjust as the original headline has a Can ... ?
The fact of the matter is that it is absurd to think that the England (UK) can be anything be a diminishing nation.
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#4> Can the UK go back to being the richest country in the world?
The original title is a question, not a statement.
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#5And yet the northern muppets went and voted a Torrie government back in 2019 that took the UK out of the EU, causing a significant damage to the economy in the form of lost GDP.
Something about bicycle front wheels and sticks, under the sound of tiny violins.
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#6The UK is "MBAs eating the world" on steroids, except they're History graduates who went to Eton. Not interested in actually creating anything or making anything. Money can be magically made by...shuffling money around. North Sea oil revenues provided a generation-long cover for this but now that's done.
Disclosure: former UK "subject".
Oh, and I forgot: allowed their country to become the "host" for Rupert Murdoch while he developed his Jedi Mind Tricks for getting folk to vote against their own interests.
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#7And yet the northern muppets went and voted a Torrie government back in 2019 that took the UK out of the EU, causing a significant damage to the economy in the form of lost GDP. Something about bicycle front wheels and sticks, under the sound of tiny violins.
I think that is a bit unfair. Plenty of people living in cities in the north voted for Labour rather than the Conservatives. In 2019 constintuencies in Bradford and Leeds which were mentioned in the article voted Labour.
The same problem exists in the USA where in a red state a county representing a large city votes Democrat but the rural areas or surburban enclaves vote Republican. Take Texas in 2020, Austin, Houston and San Antonio voted for blue rather than red.
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#8The UK still has a heavily embedded caste or caste-like social circumstance. Pharma and finance have somewhat eschewed this tradition, but even those industries still have its embedded lords and ladies. Many of their smartest head to the US (or elsewhere), and Brexit has set them back decades from achieving the "richest country" status. A software engineer can double their earnings by moving to the US (if they can manage to). The owners of capital are generally not creators, and until that changes nor will their economic station.
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#9Wealth is hard to define. Monaco is wealthy but small for example. India is big but low median wealth
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#10> Can the UK go back to being the richest country in the world? The original title is a question, not a statement.
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