What happened to the UK...

What happened to the UK? It used to be the richest and most powerful country in Europe but today its GDP has yet to recover back to its pre-2008 levels.

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money funnelling from colonies stopped after WW2.

this. it's a miracle we are even in the top 5 considering how small we are

Swiss seem based.

Government don't give a shit about the average person.

Have to pay for bennies innit

london

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your govt is one of the few in the world that actually cares about its subjects (see: Magna Carta, Bill of Rights, repeal of Corn Laws)

I do not believe in this map because I know of the fact that Eastern Croatia was richer than coastal Croatia. The Italians were incredibly poor and settled in eastern Croatia. Dalmatia was the poorest part of the Monarchy.

how can one man be so delusional about his country's own economic history

You are fucking delusional

they spent all their money at slug and lettuce

Bitch, it's not for nothing that London is the financial capital of Europe even after Brexit. It's because the rule of law is supreme there.

The UK has an equal population to France

Idiot

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Open your eyes and look at how the average brit lives. Look on /brit/ sometimes too, you will find that most of us are fucking depressed and living like shit

Its a fact.
A Bosnian calls someone an idiot. This is hilarious.

retard, why don't you open a history book and learn how the real world works

How is history relevant to the current situation you dumb nigger

Relatively speaking he isn't wrong. Enlightenment principles came out of Britain. Abolitionism was pushed by Brits first.

It's just that governments are generally so shit to their people that a government that's somewhat less shit doesn't seem like it.

Germany overtook it in industrial manufacturing and left no room for competition from UK.

Because those liberties didn't disappear overnight some 50 years ago. If your government was as tyrannical as, say, Russia, none of those things would have been realized. And if you want to claim that poor people have it hard in Britain, it's like that everywhere. Plus, you can go to a food bank or something if you lack necessities.

We lost WW2