I think it's because a lot of British people still live the dream of being a major superpower with strong and robust economy. In reality UK has decimated its ma

I think it's because a lot of British people still live the dream of being a major superpower with strong and robust economy. In reality UK has decimated its manufacturing economy and relies almost entirely on being a service economy, skewed almost entirely towards London and other areas of the UK have been left to languish. People visiting places like Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds, Bristol and so on wonder how the hell is it possible that you're visiting what is ostensibly the 5th biggest economy in the world yet the infrastructure of nearly everything is crumbling, councils can't even afford to clean the streets, social programs are being shut left and right, police won't come unless there's an actual murder and so on and so on. My point is - a lot of people would say "but Germany can have a working public transport and functional police force and not tax its citizens to death". Like...yes, they can, but they have a functional economy which can support most of the country not just Berlin. If UK had a working local economy then councils would get funding from local businesses operating where they are - but right now most of the industry is gone or barely functional.