The finest ideas brit technology and engineering have to offer.
In other words, the best they could come up with.
Well, anybody’s fine ideas are the best they could come up with. The Brits do understand aircraft carriers—during WWII their carriers had steel decks while ours had wood, and I believe the steam catapult is their idea as well. That said, the RN is a pale shadow of what it was and no doubt they have to ‘make do’ with less than what they want.