Down with Anglophilia! Remember 1812!
What explains Anglo primacy?
Perfidy, treachery, a monolithic government with a self-interest in wealth-creation and only nominal separation of powers, plus an uncanny ability to propagandize masked by a cloak of self-righteous self-absorption.
And a really, really good and really, really loyal military.
Without the values from the British system of Government, the American Revolution might not have happened at all. At best something like the French Revolution would have taken place. One of the values of the British system was the rule of law and the evolution of representative government over the centuries. Edmund Burke was spot on in explaining the difference between the British and French experiences. The British constantly reformed their system over centuries, while the French tried to reform overnight creating the terror and Bonapartism. The American Revolution was the product of British values.
As Adam Smith pointed out self-interest and wealth creation is not a bad thing.
Yes the British had a good and loyal military. Without that Bonaparte, the Kaiser and/or Hitler probably would have won.