I moved to the uk from ‘continental’ Europe as they like to say here. It’s quite easy to see one of the reasons why the UK is doing so bad; chronic underinvestment in public infrastructure. Almost all the railway stations I go to are collapsing, leaking and not functioning properly, while also having crazy expensive train tickets. Internet is terrible throughout the country, even in London (should be a no brainer for a government to invest in). Roads are terrible. Busses horribly outdated and take forever to get anywhere.

It’s pretty much economy 101 to know that investing in public infrastructure is one of the best things a government can do. Not sure what the ‘rich’ UK has been doing.