In the UK we said, "We don't need manufacturing, we have our scientists and R&D".

Then when our Universities and our R&D started to decline, we said "We don't need our Universities and R&D, we have our Service Economy".

Then when our Service Economy went offshore, we said "We dont need all our Service Economy, we have our Financial Services Economy".

Everything outside London is a wasteland. The average wage is subsistence living, if you make one at all. But the Alphas live in a magical city, where cocaine and girls are all easily affordable on multi-million pound salaries.

The UK once ruled the world. The US couldn't be following us down to ruin better if we'd given them a map.