(1) Observe UK's decline (2) Take whatever you don't like about the UK, ignore the rest, and write an article with no scientific causal inferences whatsoever a

(1) Observe UK's decline (2) Take whatever you don't like about the UK, ignore the rest, and write an article with no scientific causal inferences whatsoever about how the things you don't like caused (1). (3) Let everyone argue about how "no no no, it was the things I don't like that caused it--not the things you don't like." I have a friendly reminder that life and society are very complicated. Even with ample data and decades of scientific inquiry, for example, we only have dubious theories as to why crime declined in the 90's so much, and the most plausible ones were not evident until a decade after the fact. Anyone simplifying the UK's economic decline with convenient political talking points is a charlatan.