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The poor timing of Covid will probably forever obscure just how much self-inflicted economic damage the UK did to itself, but seeing it unfold for the last 5 ye
by nness 4y ago
The poor timing of Covid will probably forever obscure just how much self-inflicted economic damage the UK did to itself, but seeing it unfold for the last 5 years, its obvious as layman that the UK's global stagnation has only really started.
- 6510 4y agonah it is easy to see actually. The empire started out like this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_empire.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_empire.png It took a lot of political insanity to turn that into what it is now. Not sure what it means but all of those countries wanted independence from the empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_that_have_gained_independence_from_the_United_Kingdom#/media/File:List_of_countries_gained_independance_from_the_UK_Flag_version_3.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_that_have_ga... oh they missed Scotland(1320) ha-ha
- wahern 4y agoWhat's good for the goose is good for the gander, is it not? Alternatively, perhaps many of those countries would have been better off remaining part of the UK, at least in terms of trade and commercial regulation?
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