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The UK has been badly managed for as long as I've been alive, which is half a century.

This isn't party political. The tories have been worse than Labour in many respects but it's a shit show all round imo.

But then where hasn’t been? When I was born we were poorer than all of France, Japan, and Italy on a per capita basis and now we are not. We have broadly kept pace with US growth since the end of world war 2. We have failed to figure out strategies to close the gap with the US by growing faster but we are doing no worse.

"we are doing no worse" : is that the royal we? Because normal people absolutely are doing a lot worse over that last couple of decades.

I fear “we are not the richest country in the world” is an unreasonable standard for claiming chronic mismanagement.

Again with the "we". Per capita statistics are great distraction from neofeudalism.

What was the per capita GDP of Wessex?

I’m sorry but this is the best way to objectively measure anything. Otherwise you are just holding up your vibes to refute my numbers which is completely unscientific.

Numbers exist mate.

The fact you don't know about them isn't my problem.

Dividing the kings wealth by the number of serfs in his kingdom doesn't make the serfs any richer.

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