We're still pretty good at some things, science, music, F1 engineering and have the incredible advantage of speaking the world's second language. But Brexit means bands cannot easily tour the EU and school parties from France and Germany don't bother with us any more (they go to Ireland or Malta) as we will not let the children in without a full passport. So we've wrecked a significant part of our hospitality industry. And for a few years now our goverments have had such low grade ministers - the only qualification seems to be thinking Brexit is going swimmingly (don't mention the boats!) and being a right wing bigot. Sunak may be better than Truss but that's a very low bar. In 1993 the Canadian Tories were wiped out, just winning 2 seats, as can happen with an undemocratic First Past the Post system like our two big partice still cling to. Can't wait for our own Tory wipeout.
Eric Baker ● 710d