Posted on 06/10/2026 6:01:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Who broke Britain? Someone—or something—must have. The past 18 years, enough time for a whole lost generation to be born and brought up, have yielded nothing but stagnation and mass disillusionment. In 2007, before the global financial crisis, Britain was at its postimperial zenith. Median household income had just surpassed that of Germany. A pound was worth more than $2, and London was arguably displacing New York as the center of international banking.
But since then, Britain has been left behind. The country’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi, America’s poorest state—and that slight lead is only achieved thanks to London. Outside the capital, in places where tourists do not visit, living standards fall well below Mississippi’s. Brits visiting the United States find that their currency has depreciated to the point where the pound today buys only about $1.35. British wages have lagged well behind those in the U.S., and also those in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Denmark; once you account for inflation, they’ve barely grown at all.
Within the next decade, the typical Pole will have a standard of living equal to the typical Brit, if current trends continue.
One generation ago, Britain was a major global power; today, it is a middling one, gripped by sclerosis. Taxation is at the highest level since World War II, yet public services have deteriorated. The National Health Service, the celebrated pillar of the British cradle-to-grave welfare state, has a backlog of 6 million patients—almost a tenth of the population—waiting for treatment.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
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The Atlantic writing about how socialism has failed???
That is shocking
Britain has gone from complacency to apathy. Next step...dependence.
This stark economic comparison between England and one of our least prosperous states has really got the Brit’s attention. They need to pay attention on just how steeply the quality of their lives has been permitted to fall.
And why drag Mississippi into it? The residents there had nothing to do with Britain colossally failing, comparing an apple to an orange if there ever was one, another masterpiece by the Atlantic. /s
They were really making progress right up until the start of the Obama era migrant invasion
Now they are terminally in decline and literally at war with their political overlords.
They have a Muslim Mayor in London, A uber liberal government and a intellectual moron for a Prime Minister...........
What could possibly go wrong with that setup?..................
How do they say it? Import the third world; become the third world.
The reduction in worker output can be attributed to White replacement. American workers cost more, but were ultimately more productive than the Mexicans to whom they lost their jobs.
Leftists are math-impaired. They can just never figure out how adding millions of socially incompatible criminal illegals to the welfare rolls will drain a nation’s resources.
Brief Renaissance under Margaret Thatcher. Then they were in decline again once Tony Blair took over.
Bringing in immigrants, and just redistributing wealth is going to make everyone poorer. Every time.
“ The Atlantic writing about how socialism has failed???”
They just didn’t do it right, don’t you know.
Mississippi is absolutely the wrong comparison.
Rather, it would be much more relevant to point out life in the UK is better than Pakistan or Nigeria.
If you get my drift. ;)
Remember when the sun never set on the British Empire?
Well they managed to demean Mississippi
Brexit sure didn’t help the UK.
“Remember when the sun never set on the British Empire?”
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Not unless you’re around 80.
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