Britain’s Death Has Been a Hundred and Fifty Years In The Making…

And America isn’t learning the harsh lessons from its former colonial master.

Boris Johnson and Donald Trump. Symbols of British and American decline. Image via Wikimedia Commons

As writers, there are times when you are forced to concede that your work is markedly inferior to someone else’s.

And that point, for me, was a few days ago.

I read an extraordinarily brilliant article on the subject matter of Britain’s demise.

Unlike anything you have ever read from me, This post was written with a level of detail and presented with the sort of clarity, of which I could only dream.

And the topic was Britain’s death.

In his supreme write up, Samuel Mcilhagga argues that Britain’s political and economic crises have been a very long time in the making; taking it all the way back to well over a century ago.

To him, Britain had the first mover advantage when it came to industrialization in the 18th century at a time when Germany wasn’t the consolidated nation-state it later became and the United States of America was still finding its feet.

But this advantage gave way to complacency by the end of the 19th century when the previously cited countries had overtaken the United Kingdom.