There are lots of jobs in the UK right now - in fact there is a labor shortage. What we don't have is large domestic natural resources, or access to the global

There are lots of jobs in the UK right now - in fact there is a labor shortage. What we don't have is large domestic natural resources, or access to the global market guaranteed by force of arms. We used to have that, but we had to give it up due to the Second World War and also morality (admittedly that part came with hindsight and without prerequisite contrition and apologies).