I think the US is probably the worst model for any state to follow, because it's just so different to every other state on the planet. The UK's historical posit

I think the US is probably the worst model for any state to follow, because it's just so different to every other state on the planet. The UK's historical position as global hegemon pushes the UK towards maintaining institutional attitudes and policies that only make sense if you are the global superpower, and the success of the US compounds this tendency, but the problem is, the UK is a middle-size state that just has none of the inherent positional or material resources the US has, so it results in lackluster economic growth. Which is what we've seen in the post-war era. Trying to repeat the Silicon valley, when you have none of the massive geographic and historical advantages Silicon valley had, makes no sense, and I wish the UK would stop trying to copy what it cannot be (the massive global empire) and started trying to copy what it can be (all of the dynamic middle-size economies, like SK, Germany, or even Finland).