My Anglophilia failed after living in the UK.
This is still a very beautiful country with a lot of history, but the people in general have p&55ed it away. This is no longer the England of Wodehouse or Biggles etc.
They were great from about 1750 to about 1950. 200 years is not a bad run.
But all imperial states decline and crash. Look at Babylon, Persepolis, Athens, Rome, etc. It is inevitable
Britain ceased being an imperial state a long time ago, but it is better to be a sovereign, independent minor power than a mere province in a mighty empire. Imperial subjects, even those who live in the ‘core’ state, rarely have much power over their own governments and Disraeli-style talk of dazzling imperial grandure and power on the world stage is a way of distracting the ordinary people from this fact.