The poor timing of Covid will probably forever obscure just how much self-inflicted economic damage the UK did to itself, but seeing it unfold for the last 5 years, its obvious as layman that the UK's global stagnation has only really started.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_empire.png
It took a lot of political insanity to turn that into what it is now. Not sure what it means but all of those countries wanted independence from the empire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_that_have_ga...
oh they missed Scotland(1320) ha-ha