I don't really understand the perspective your are saying. The UK was basically the ONLY country that helped Ukraine straight away when the war started, it was the UK that dragged the US along, and Germany is still dragging its feet on arms supplies. And I'm not saying that as someone who thinks Ukraine should be supported at all costs, but what the UK did was admirable.

If you mean Brexit, yes, there is some blame here, but it's one of the MANY issues the UK has been kicking down the road.

The UK has almost no manufacturing, its all financial services and service industries. There is less and less local energy production, and the cost is way more than the EU. Yet all attempts at starting fracking is failing.

On top of that 2008 then covid bought massive money printing.

At some point, you just can't fight physics. I'm sorry. There is so much wrong with the UK economy now it's insane. You can't print money to make cheap energy, while interest rates rise on 100%+ debt, while everyone moves into US dollars for the safe haven. Something has to give.

The UK either makes some tough choices now, on par with what Thatcher did, which will be extremely painful, or this slow decline will continue.