[rabscuttle385]

Foreign policy is a prime suspect. The center of a vast empire that covered almost a quarter of the world's land mass and one third of its people, Great Britain accepted the role of 'global policeman' for much of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As with ancient Rome, this proved vastly expensive both in terms of money and domestic tranquility. Funds diverted from the home nation hurt working people disproportionately, fueling socialist activism. Eventually, the empire rotted from within.

He's right.

[sickoflibs]

James Dale Davidson wrote the same thing in the early 1990s finally . We can never get out of this hole

[Vanders9]

He is right, although to say the only reason the empire fell was because it “rotted from within” is a vast oversimplification. There were many reasons for the decline of the British Empire - rising nationalism in the colonies and increased foreign competition being major factors.