How is the United Kingdom so rich? 

I don't recognise this place. It was a party political broadcast on behalf of the conservative party.....😅

A lot of the facts haven’t been updated post brexit , eg it’s not largest in many financial services anymore and New York has taken spot as most international financial centre

That's what's so sad and infuriating about the UK. We're a rich country and a great place to live but our politicians and business elites want to keep a large section of the country in poverty. Our poverty rates are the worst in northern Europe

@@jw-ob1wv I know right! It’s like they are trying to squeeze us dry before the great reset or a big future plan. Only those who do have the money will survive and those who are ignorant and uneducated will fell into ruins.

Britain and the British are fantastic!!

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Not many can see the forest for the trees within their own country. Of course things can improve, but things are still very good.

Don't forget that in poor countries the poor get nothing. In Britain the poor get monetry help and free healthcare....even if some those 'poor' want to sit on their sofa everyday.

You only have to travel the world to realise how lucky we are to live in 🇬🇧 UK

only because they rob their population

From a Brit who always hears the opposite from foreign citizens. I am glad to hear you call this your adopted homeland. Us brits will be glad to fight by your side if the time comes💪

I've been here 20 years boet, imagine my surprise when a politician got fired for having an affair. I find the best way to divert the questions about leaving the weather is to say weather is nice but so is free healthcare and a safe transport system that spans the country,. Also not having to here white people complain about their hardships while driving BMWs past shacks got a bit tiresome.

@Mark Macfarlane I've been to the UK every year for the last 9 for work, my dad was born here and my mom is 3/4 English, so the culture and thinking is more mine than being South African ever was. My dad was probably the only Mancunian that ever spoke semi fluent Afrikaans, since he moved to SA in 59. However, he retained his strongly British character, never leaving his childhood behind. I grew up in SA with Benny Hill, Freddie Starr, etc so the UK is more home than SA, and since being identified as the cause of the problems in SA ( white male, gray hair, must be my fault) the UK offers opportunity open to my skills and not as a function of skin tone. SA is racist. No ifs, ands, or buts.

I know several South Africans who are coming here because of the decline of freedoms in SA. Theyre all hard working decent people, looking for a safe country to work and raise their children.

@@hbhb2515 the other citizens are free to leave if they don't like it.

The only things British are good at is genocide and theft. Thats why. Theyve been doing it for centuries and stole enough to last several lifetimes. Simple.

Really?

@@ARM1886 Yes definitely. I went back last December and each and every time I go back the level of decline just seems to grow. Most American cities are unlivable. Everything costs a fortune, rents are a joke, drug abuse, homelessness and tent encampments are everywhere and our politicians are the worst. They have gone so far down the trans and gender ideology rabbit hole to care about anything else. Here children can go to school safe in the knowledge no nut will turn up and shoot it up!

I'm literally moving to America, I like freedom and having rights.

@@JW-YT Where from? The US is not the place it used to be. Glad I got out but good luck!

Good times are gone, now London for rich or with own property. Stagnation, inflation, Brexit, Covid, war and stupidity of political parties brought the country to losses.

London is but a fraction of the country and totally unrepresentative of most of the country.

I sometimes think that people that are far worse off are completely wrong to think that in the UK it is better....I am firmly on the left in the UK.... but i also think trying to solve a problem by going further away from the problem is likely just inviting the cause of the problem. Like trying to escape poverty for a so called better life in a richer country. It feels like bad judgment to assume this is a better option. England is stained by a thousand years of war and corruption and slavery and even now.....we invented the word gollywog in the 70s....even now we celebrate a monarch whos wealth exists on highly questionable grounds....

​@@Seph0rz The name golliwog (correct spelling) was in toy shops when I was a child in the 1940's. Also lots of children had black dolls. Not invented in the 1970's like you said.

Being born in London is irreverent. Birthright citizenship doesn’t exist here (thank god)

Happy to have you here! 🙂

Welcome 🫶🏻

How many EU countries have you been ?

@Maniac Mando I have been to everyone except Slovakia and Ukraine and I can confirm the UK is top 5, also Prague budapest hungary , germany and Italy are the best

Meanwhile, I (british) am leaving the UK and moving to Slavonia, HR 😂I can't stand it here any longer.

That’s because we’re the best trained army in the world the most disciplined. We might not have the men the US has but our military is a powerhouse.

@@danksinatra7962 It's one of the largest in Western Europe.

@@stevedavenport1202 compared to the Russian and US army it’s pretty small but we do have 3 of the best forces in the world. S.B.S, S.A.S and ghurkas. And even the royal army, Air Force and navy are some of the most disciplined out there. It’s just a shame Britain was the 3rd ones to get into Berlin after America and Russia.

@@danksinatra7962 British doctrine at the time was to be more conservative so as not to lose too many soldiers, so I think that accounts for getting to Berlin later.

@@stevedavenport1202 Joining the RAF in September for BRTC, but the wait time was ABSOLUTELY HORRENDOUS. I think it was something about not completing their diversity quotas, but I was essentially turned away twice and told to apply at a later date. Things have been really slow for them.

Where are you from im from the uk and im so glad to hear that!

@@njkpower8351 Dear sir, I'm from Bangladesh. It's my pleasure that you are happy seeing my comment. I've just spoken and expressed myself on an independent platform.

The best country on earth for few billionaires and if you are rich...otherwise not much difference on salaries than an average country from EU...

@@mariuspintea8245 Well, I've got what you said. However, people can at least get to work there if not higher jobs(the term often used by the people of 3rd world with narrow mentality). More importantly, there are rule of law, regulations, discipline and standard of living. One more thing, majority of the British are amicable. To sum up, one can enjoy liberty after toiling for 3/4 years as pretty things take time if not more.

India liberated you from tyranny in 1971 and you don't have single respect for india. Whereas the country which starved you, created the worst famine in your country, you are admiring them. Great.

Not since Brexit, universities are struggling to get enough students, research and innovation is disappearing the the EU countries and our education system is breaking down

@abdul Spruce Its across the news and there is plenty on the internet if you care to look

@@JOOLZNED Can't find anything, any links?

@@JOOLZNEDbut now the uk unis heavily rely on Asian students with large amounts of wealth

@@hamzaibrahim6168 That only applies to the top 4 or 5 uni's the rest are having major issues

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Compare the poor parts of England to the poor parts of a country like Cambodia let’s say, Blackpool is on a whole different level.

Blackpool is literally one of the worst areas in the UK...

leeds and bradford you cant tell when you leave one and enter the other

@@ablair37 True

fookin scousers....

Bristol and Cardiff are close too.

Londons GDP is worth more than Manchester. Birmingham. Liverpool. Leeds. Nottingham, put together

Tell that to the powers that be that want to take all that away from us and who arrest an innocent women for simply praying silently to herself, our country is circling the pan and the Tories and labour are only interested in what they can take from us and put in their pockets before everything goes to crap

how is exploiting other countries a positive

@@marklee2588 what are you referring too?

@@maxdavis7722 neocolonialism

@@marklee2588 what neocolonialism does the UK do?

I mean the modern day brits shouldnt be punished for it, but the Brits should be ashamed of them. They killed 1 million of my people, and I hate seeing all the British nostalgia for their exploitation of my ancestors

To be fair your ancestors did pillage the world and that wealth accrued from violence and oppression was a foundation for the nation

I'd love that to happen, but people are purposefully divided, the powers that be know exactly what buttons to press to control you all. Just be happy if you can there is nothing else.

No! Scotland must become independent.

@@euancohen A great idea for the Russians who want to split apart Europe

@@firstroundboxing7649 haha, As if the Russians had anything to do with it. Scotland voted to stay in the EU and the rest of Britain voted for Brexit. Scotland will join with the EU when they get independence.

@@euancohen why lol my mum is from the isle of skye, should skye become independent too because the lord of the isles was once an historicaly country... fuck the SNP!

britain left the eu???

Oh yes Singapore and Malaysia

Yes,big market for few billionaires and the rest of the populations is on surviving mood with minimum wage...so where is the richness?

@@OscarBobbIsTheGOAT they can still trade with European countries though, right?

@@nicklpantis when you read honest sources, you will find out how much more difficult it is to trade with the EU now, so difficult that many businesses cannot afford the extra paperwork and costs, and the EU businesses would rather trade with another EU country to avoid the delays, costs and paperwork. If you haven't noticed the sharp decrease in your standard of living, you're either super rich, or blind. The standard of living for normal people is now lower in the uk than countries like Poland, Czech Republic and Slovenia. If you voted tory and brexit, you are the turkey that voted for Xmas; unless you're the super rich taking advantage of non-dom forex money-laundering tax-evasion scams. Because that's why the owners of the red-top gutter-rags told you to vote for brexit, and filled you full of lies and cheap dishonest slogans: they're all owned by individuals that use these tax loopholes that the EU have closed down; the surviving owner of the telegraph as well

The UK countryside is desolate and filled with farmland. It used to be a complete deciduous forest until we made space for exploited animals.

@@TheMusicBandB Come to Scotland, we have loads of nice countryside with forests and hills that you can go for walks in

@@TheMusicBandB it being bought up by all the rich city folk for second home and holiday rentals. Local being priced out of the market and what few social homes are available are going to foreigners and people being moved from inner city area again no where for locals.

@@fencer39 I can smell how you vote from this comment.

@@TheMusicBandB lol......better go see your doctor and get your senses checked !😆😆

I love how nobody remembers the Great British Empire and the centuries of looting all around the world.

@@monipenny408 That is a given for all empires. That is pretty much the very definition of imperialism. I don’t recall any empires that were different.

@@chairde You are absolutely spot on. You know the difference? All the other empires no longer exist, and post WW2, we should learn and respect humanity, yet....here we are US and UK imperialism continues. THAT is the problem. We should have led by example, we have done some bad things, but I think post WW2, we could have turn things around and we would have been respected, but NO, we continue to invade, murder, loot, coups, regime changes, proxy wars, spread hate, division all around the world.

@@monipenny408 It wasn’t the USA or the UK that drove tanks across the Ukrainian border.

@@chairde You didn't think I noticed? That would be like saying "It was Osama who bombed the Twin Towers" or "Palestinians bombed Israeli cities" or "China showed aggression in South China Sea”, “Native indians were attacking white settlers”. You are demonstrating a classic American behaviour, selective memory and history, instead of starting at page 1, you have gone straight to page 3, 19, 34, 75, you have lost all context. You saw what US regime wants you to see, but you fail to ask Why? How? Cui Bono? Why is Russia invading Ukraine? Why did Palestinians bombs Israeli cities? Why China is aggressive in South China Sea? Why were native Indians attacking white settlers? Americans think Putin woke up one morning and had a bad breakfast and decided to invade Ukraine. Fact is, whole Ukrainian conflict is and was orchestrated by US state dept (Nuland), as far back as since the collapse of USSR, culminating in the Maidan Coup of 2014, having poured billions into corrupting Ukrainian politicians, US had funded, supported and trained Azov Nutzi radicals just like they did with Mujahideen, then Al Qaeda, ISIS, ISIL. The reason is purely to “bleed” Russia dry, using Ukrainians as pawns / cannon fodder. This isn’t anything new, it’s been done many times over. You really need to do a bit research mate. Try looking into Ukraine on Fire by Oliver Stone, you might learn something.

If we're replaced by India - Good for them, well deserved.

Ahh, just like America except the Gun violence.

@@williamkinkade2538 nah they use knives instead

@@zackgravity7284 Trump tell you that? Pretty sure between a gun and a knife, one is way more statistically deadly than the other.

@@Alex-zs7gw ??? What does trump have to do with it?

@@zackgravity7284 you've literally paraphrased the bullshit he said about the UK. Let me guess...next you're gna tell me that Birmingham is 100% Muslim

GDP per capita is almost 7x lower which means it's still a remarkably poor country

India can not even supply clean water and sanitation to all of its population. It's rich on paper but, in reality, has vast poverty problems.

There size helped

Doco is very Australian of you

The Criminals and the unwanted Irish sent from the UK, decimation of the Aboriginals, decimation of the fauna and flora... done!

F'ing hilarious! I just got a pay rise and don't feel very rich!

Rule of Law, property rights, relatively corruption free and democracy are the main components of a prosperous country.

Property rights? Stretching it.

@@bazlur-Vancouver none of which is possible without education, free education is the way of the west, the end result produces adults that get jobs paying taxes by property and products thus making the country richer. Rule of law derives from education, property rights derives from education, as does democracy.

​@@johnburns4017 Life without property rights is difficult and quickly decays into might-makes-right. An even bigger deal is that the UK established quite early on that property rights bind the government much more than in many other countries. It's just harder for the British government to take your stuff compared to - say - Russia or China. The link with prosperity is that without property rights any investment you make is at risk and so discouraged. Tenant farmers in the Middle Ages were hopelessly unproductive even allowing for the time because they had no rational reason to improve the land they worked or to work it particularly hard since everything was owned by someone else. Production steps up when you personally gain from it and know that someone else can't walk in and take it. Ownership is a fundamental economic requirement and the inability to find a "solution" to ownership is a key weakness in Marxism which tries to navigate around the problem of monopolisation (a key weakness in Capitalism) by reworking ownership in a way which flies in the face of human nature and thus fails in practise no matter how nice it sounds on paper. Anyway, it's very complicated once you start getting into it, but prosperity and property rights are definitely closely linked.

@@nagoranerides3150 In the UK all land is owned by the King. _Landowners_ are called _freeholders._ That is you hold the land free of charge from the King. The King can take the land back at any time. So *all* land is effectively owned by everyone of us. That is the technicalities out of the way. If *all* land was rented by the state to the occupiers, the economy would flourish as income tax (a tax on the productive) would not be needed. All the tenant needs is security of occupation. Land Value Tax does something similar but cares not about who owns (freeholder) the land. So land titles and buying and selling of freeholds can stay. Land Value Tax reclaim community created wealth, which soaks into the ground that crystallizes as land values. Look up and understand Land Value Tax (Detroit is hoping to get it in force next year). *No, property (land) rights does not make the UK rich.* As it stands it does the opposite as _economic rent_ is appropriated by the freeholder.

Great, isn't it to hear someone give you the opportunity to be proud.

No you did not. Don’t try and claim credit for the tens of millions who died to defeat facism.

@@tempejkl the Brits are the only reason Germany lost. The Brits never surrendered. Stop the jealousy

@@GerMFnU1848Sax and the Soviets.

@@GerMFnU1848Sax The soviets lost millions, the greatest amount of any nation during WWII. Go back to school!

Ended slavery: After abusing it for long and reaping the benefits. Spread Democracy: How? By dictating the colonial regions and leeching off their resources?

Bastard all of them are slave fuck off welfare system benefit

What has the UK ever did again? Apart from claiming credit for for WW2 (and disrespecting the 26.6M Soviets who died to defeat facism, and the 20M Chinese people who died to defeat Imperial Japan)

It’s true. Statistically the UK is more often than not on the winning side. It certainly choose its allies well

Sorry for progress! Should we all be working in cotton mills! The North voted the country out of Europe which was subsuidising your areas. You kicked them out, there not coming back, go and pick potatoes and fruit and suck it up!

Well in London there's over 8 million. More than Liverpool Manchester and Leeds combined. So no wonder they get more money.

George Osbourne was just speaking bs all them years ago. 'Northern Powerhouse'.

​@@indian-tech-supportLondon's cost of living and running a business isn't worth the investment imo. Much better to start a company in a northern England or the midlands. If you look in the last 5 years Northern Ireland has had tons of investment as companies see an opportunity to have hybrid trading with NIR being in a trading position with the EU.

Most people in Ireland detest this term "British Isles", as it implies that the island of Ireland is owned by Britain, which it does not. We refer to the collective islands as Britain and Ireland.

@@ConorWaters1 the correct name of something offends irish people apparently /j

@@ConorWaters1 Britain is a geographical name, not a political one. They are the british isles, they're just not owned by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

@@ConorWaters1 well that’s on them, because that’s not what it means at all. Those Irish people are just idiots

@@ConorWaters1 Britain isn't a country smh I'm from Ireland and never heard anyone offended by that lmao. What a thing to be offended by

Next to the pole the thick white stripe is at the top. Easy , now everyone knows.

This has been more prevalent since the Coronation with more flags flying. It's frustrating when you know.

Why would anyone care when the country looks like bhagdad? Go play your violin elsewhere

Also the invention of fish and chips 😃

No uk become so rich because Britishers looted 45 trillion dollars from India.

@@devanshbaliyan346 yeah because india had 45 trillion dollar lying around 300 years ago

Try slavery and colonization

@@eddymurky4149 wasn’t that much of an economic benifit

Dont hate on bojo

Colonisation: ☕️

Rubbish

yes wrong profession

@@daboy12s The fact that wages did not increase in the last 10 years tells you everything you need to know. Which profession would be a better choice?

@@craigedwards2411 engineering

Should've gone into data science or a financial analyst of some sort. The money in those fields is relatively high and you can progress quite quickly.

I live in UK and people act as If they are poor , I can tell you y'all ain't, because I come from a poor country myself lol , I love the UK a their people

@@easy-jay Maybe the British should stop bending over backwards for the rich and letting them bumfuck them

Debt

YOU are not British, YOU are either, English Scottish Irish or Welsh, and the British have deliberately bankrupt the country, we are skint, when the British want money, they just print it

Yep, like how median is better than mean/ average.

The top of the GDP per capita table is dominated by tiny micro state tax havens and petro states whose economies rely on under paid guest workers.

Whaatt

5th or 6th largest economy means little You are absolutely right. Indians are celebrating on social media that surpassed UK GDP or economy, but they have one of the lowest gdp per capita in the world(162)

lmao median wages in uk are 32k which is top 1% earning in the entire world. if thats not impressive idk what is sounds like someone is jealous of british. i bet i can guess the colour of ur skin

@@bazlur-Vancouver but we have high ppp you idiot 🙄

Museum on the mound

It's in Edinburgh

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@Balochi boy lol I will manage

try overtaking your own government or changing things where you are rather than relying on others.

You o'right a kid?) Hope you enjoing it ))haha

@@discoboy8169 💩💩💩

Yeah the british make great robots ,do what they are told , 😂😂😂money before soul 😢😢

Sure they do. The majority are on disability benefits it’s only the foreigners that are grafters.

​@@supersurfer1 foreigners sell drugs to kids you clown. You don't meet working Albanians or Somalians you cretin

23 million brits claimed benefits in 2021. Talk about grafting hard. Even the PM's a huge joke

some of us is rocket science :)

I am from the west country and say poorer.

Manchester is really a conglomerated metropolis. pop: 2.8m it works as such economically, geographically and also culturally.

@@adam_grace Similar to Leeds, most of west yorkshire will see Leeds as the 'capital' so to speak, Bradford is a sh*thole and all the other places are too small, in fact a lot of east Yorkshire will be the same. For many its the go-to city for shopping and nightlife.

Leeds is not!

@@johnburns4017 Leeds is not what? Leeds is the second biggest city outside London.

@@Mikebigmike94 The _City_ of Leeds inside its city borders is quite small. As is Manchester.

Brits realising they’re being exploited by the rich:

You mean like colonialism ? But good, sounds like an oxymoron… but listen. Sorta like the British did it with their last few colonies before the end of their empire… I mean they must have done something different because my country, Australia, Hong Kong, Canada didn’t turn out all that bad… at least I don’t think we did 😂 I’m from New Zealand btw, just incase you were wondering.

The ‘failing places’ can run themselves, you just keep killing their leaders and replacing them with colonialist puppets (like how yous got rid of Sankara, Gaddafi, and others)

UK is not rich in terms of GDP per capita. Don't fool yourself and don't try to live like a rich country when you are not. People in UK want high wages, high benefits, good public service, short working hours and long holidays without generating the economic output that matches that.

That is nonsense. Go to any "poor" household in this country and the people (statistically 70%) are overweight and obese, meaning an excess of calories. They have electricity and heating. A TV. The Internet. Mobile phones. Not to mention a car or two. They also have free education for their children. Free healthcare. And, being on benefits, they have discounts for glasses and dentistry (or it is outright free). Get housing benefit for their rent. Child benefit to help with their children, and numerous freebies from the council. Their children can go to University through student finance (which is a government guaranteed loan they don't have to pay back until they earn a decent wage). More than half the world (4 billion) don't have any of these things! So to say British people are poor is nonsense. Even those at the bottom are rich compared to 95% of the world. And they are only "poor" in this country through poor personal choices.

@@jerryappleton6855 I am saying the country is poor. It is in huge debt and people still want the country to live beyond its means.

@@jerryappleton6855 'They are only "poor" in this country through poor personal choices." Or you could be less disingenuous and say the rich are rich because they're ruthless and fine with exploiting / manipulating anybody and everybody with more self respect than the rich have. Newspapers (owned by the rich) encourage the poor to fight among themselves and blame everything wrong with the world on just about anyone other than the real culprits: the filthy rich. As a result, we always get terrible governments of a right wing persuasion - even Blair's 'New Labour'. Of course, it's the same the world over (though your totalitarian Russia and China do it differently). Musk sells snake oil with his 'green' electric cars (that use energy that still comes from hydrocarbons half the time) and his Space X nonsense. Stock prices get manipulated, the rich employ crafty accountants to abuse those tax loopholes / evade it altogether, or just don't pay their bills (eg. Trump and all his lawsuit swindling). So what are these personal choices you were going to mention?

@@jerryappleton6855 The life expectancy is sinking. NHS is breaking apart with horrendous waiting times. Sewage is being dumped into the ocean around the island. People are overweight is not a sign of richness but poverty. Go to Switzerland, barely any obesity. Your political system fosters corruption. Inflation is so bad and salaries so low that millions of children don't get regular warm meals a day except at school. You student loans are crippling future generations. You become a country of people that looks to places that are worse in comparison instead of looking at places that are better run, which is pretty much most of the EU. The average British person is poorer than 4 years ago, and will be even poorer in 4 years.

And to eliminate slavery and police the world's waters.

Not true. It stopped the centuries-long exploitation of other countries (like the 47 TRILLION) stolen from India. It’s not like you can’t recover from a world war. The Soviet Union had the most casualties and was the 2nd most destroyed (behind Poland, whose recover the USSR also paid for). But it recovered, despite having 60% of its industry destroyed, and almost matched the relatively unaffected USA.

⁠@@loopielou4426 ‘eliminate slavery’ the UK was one of the main contributors to slavery. And it’s not like the exploitation stopped after, just look at The Great Hunger, the Boer war, and many others

@@tempejkl UK spent years of it's GDP buying slaves freedom and banned slavery across it's empire.

@@tempejkl 12m African slaves. 3M to the UK. We were slaves too you know. Everything we have done to be rich and most of which is our own our sheer intelliegence and abilities - whatever it is people want to pour over here to benefit from.

And the world wide web was invented by Sir Tim Berners Lee, a Brit

Technically speaking the English Crown still ‘owns’ approximately 1/6th of the world land mass. If you think of all the nations the English Crown where is still head of state.

The modern world only happened because of millions of slaves working in primary industries that enabled the home populace to industrialise

British Empire looted 3/4 of earth.

That's funny, the 'left wing' media in Britain keep telling people how poor we are and how it's all the fault of the Tories, Brexit, racism and transphobia...

It indeed is

True. My country Spain which is a third world country should copy UK or Germany's model, British people living here earn 3 times more than we do. Comparing UK and Spain is like comparing US and Latin America. If our politicians weren't corrupt and if communism was ilegalized Spain would be a richer country.

@@mdgev2001 Spain is only good for the weather

@@panther5577 yes, but we are far better than you as well in gastronomy.

@@mdgev2001 Spain is first world as it sided with USA

With the decline of our manufacturing and heavy industry it's to be expected that such a gap would open up. The south east was always wealthier, but the industrial revolution built up much of the country in the north and Midlands. Birmingham was a little backwater made up of villages, hamlets and open heathland before the canal attracted manufacturers who in turn created the once famous city of a thousand trades! Manchester had very little going for it until cotton caused the population and economic output of the city to explode! That was then, the British empire followed and allowed a monopoly on world trade etc. It's very unlikely we can go back to that sort of economy now, it's like agriculture, the combine harvester and other machines mean the labourer just can't return to the land because things have changed. We can't compete on price with poor countries when it comes to labour costs, and with that in mind I really don't know what can be done to level the gap that exists between the regions.

no, no it didnt

not computers, since the usa literally invented semi conductors

I guess that list is more or less complete...

@@franknwogu4911 the OP didnt say the UK invented computers.

@@Iamtheliquor can u elaborate on the "op"

Dirty money - would be washed less and less. Clearing services gone. I hope country would survive, but it is obvious damage made by Brexit, war in Ukraine support and support of USA in everything US does. Covid also did damage, which is we can't 100% to blame someone certainly, I do believe it is either USA or CHINA fault

Through banking and financial services

Yes is second only to New York with currency exchange.

@@adriansmith5241 Actually I have just read that London is the world leading city in terms of Forex trading volumes. Manchester and Edinburgh are also major forex trading hubs in the UK. New York, however, is the world's largest financial centre. London is number 2. Shanghai is quickly catching up with both.

@@CountryGalB London is *international* finance.

Sorry what services have collapsed? Last I checked I can go to a store and get food from the farms cheap. I can visit any fast food or restaurant and afford a night out on minimum wage. I can buy a working car, insure it and use it without worry knowing if something happens the small payments made yearly will cover my vehicle. If I'm seriously injured I'm fixed up free of charge with urgent medical attention being available whenever. If needed I can easily fall back onto cycling to work as everything in the country is close compared to abroad. I can live rural or urban and have everything I'd ever need in a 5 mile radius.

@@OnlyGrafting Also the minimum wage for a full-time job yields an annual income of £18,760 (take-home pay) which is 3 times as much as my expenses.

@@OnlyGrafting You neglect the rent costs or house costs in your comment. I'll guess you are a boomer with assets already in your name that you've rode the price rise on. Try buy a house or rent in today's market on the average wage and let me know how it goes... Your comment is completely specific to your circumstances and is not at all typical or even do-able for most people.

Because?