Similarly; during the potato famine Britain exported much of Irelands food crops.
Now, the UK is doing this to it's own population, much of it's Oil and Gas from the North see is being exported.
Ordinary people are getting hit with what will be some of the biggest prices rises in Europe, but the people who have been in charge for 12 years don't care.
The new prime minister says she will fix this, but she was a minister for 8 years in this government, and her solution is to keep all the energy company profits, and give people a stopgap that will be added onto their bills for the next 10 years.