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I always wondered if Roman Britain ever had a chance to stand on it’s own?

The official line is that it was not economically self-sustaining and that the Britons were never really romanized.

The Romans were pretty well Romanised at this point. Britain (along with other provinces) broke away from Rome on two occasions during the chaotic late third Century. In 268 under Postumus, as part of the seccessionis Anglo-Gallic Empire, and again under Carausius in 286.
On both of these occasions, the rebellious governments formed themselves along Roman lines, with Roman style coinage, a Senate, and Roman-Style armies (indeed, the secessionist 'Emperors' were Roman Military commanders who rebelled.

One of the chief reasons why provinces like Britain were willing to support seccesion was that, due to the chaos and civil war that was ravaging Rome at this time, Rome was unable to protect backwater provinces like Britain from raiding barbarians and pirates, because the various Roman Emperors where too busy fighting other pretenders, rival emperors, barbarians and usurpers closer to home. The secessionist Emperors were relatively successful because they could focus on outside threats more because they were based more locally and were willing to focus more resources on protect Britain and Gaul's borders from pirates and Barbarians.

It wasn't until 410 that Rome finally and formally abdicated its responsibility towards Britain and told the RomanBritish that they were on their own and to look to their own defences. Shortly afterwards, the Angles, Jutes and Saxons started arriving in droves and eventually occupied what is now England drove out the natives (or at least their culture) and took it over...

The British were pretty well Romanised at this point. Britain (along with other provinces) broke away from Rome on two occasions during the chaotic late third Century. In 268 under Postumus, as part of the seccessionis Anglo-Gallic Empire, and again under Carausius in 286.
On both of these occasions, the rebellious governments formed themselves along Roman lines, with Roman style coinage, a Senate, and Roman-Style armies (indeed, the secessionist 'Emperors' were Roman Military commanders who rebelled.

One of the chief reasons why provinces like Britain were willing to support seccesion was that, due to the chaos and civil war that was ravaging Rome at this time, Rome was unable to protect backwater provinces like Britain from raiding barbarians and pirates, because the various Roman Emperors where too busy fighting other pretenders, rival emperors, barbarians and usurpers closer to home. The secessionist Emperors were relatively successful because they could focus on outside threats more because they were based more locally and were willing to focus more resources on protect Britain and Gaul's borders from pirates and Barbarians.

It wasn't until 410 that Rome finally and formally abdicated its responsibility towards Britain and told the RomanBritish that they were on their own and to look to their own defences. Shortly afterwards, the Angles, Jutes and Saxons started arriving in droves and eventually occupied what is now England drove out the natives (or at least their culture) and took it over...