England has fallen. Cops removed offensive stickers from car

Probably been longer than that. I think when the generation that had a "stiff upper lip" and held off the Germans passed is when the UK started its downward spiral. I don't see the UK recovering..
If anyone actually want to know what has happened to the UK listen or read the series of books written by Dominic Sandbrook about the UK through the 60s, 70s and early 80s.

The TLDR versions about what went wrong in the UK, in no particular order;
-De-industrialization: the UK was were the Industrial revolution started, and was the first place to reverse that process
-Socialism: the UK has struggled with what to do about those who are out of work, when towns like Corby in the 70s have an unemployment rate of over 30% due to the steel works closing and no hope of ever getting a real job again, it's very hard to know what to do with these people
-Mass immigration: the Tony Blair Government opened the flood gates to immigration, back in the 70s the UK actually had net emigration
-Mass urbanization: just like in the US when people loose touch with farming/the countryside they seem to also loose touch with reality
-Shit politicians: since the Blair Government the ruling classes have completely lost touch with reality, no matter what the people want and actually vote for nothing ever changes. Mass immigration on low income workers, and an every growing bureaucracy has meant the average worker keeps getting poorer and poorer, supporting more and more people. Combined with de-industrialization has meant the average worker has kept going backward
-climate change/net zero: speaks for itself, spend millions to "decarbonize" and ruin the economy/industry at the same time
-A bunch more I can't be bothered typing

But the biggest issue and the main issue in the past few decades:
-Political correctness/slavery/colonialism: This is basically the UKs version of the USs slave owning past, and is what has been holding back almost every single western country. The academic class has convinced the people in power that the UK is fundamentally a bad place and an evil society, thus is required to take on unlimited refugees/immigrants, pay millions in foreign aid, basically do whatever it is the EU/UN say they need to do to pay for their sins in the past, and not complain about it.

The UK is facing the exact same issues as the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France etc.
The average UK citizen doesn't have the luxury of moving to a different state like in the US, there is no "micro climate" for rural/conservatives to move to if they don't like the way things are going. In the 80s after a few mass shootings gun rights were under threat and as the majority of the population live in the city and didn't think guns were necessary it was easy for politicians to single out gun owners.

Many Brits have moved to other countries, primarily Canada, Australia, New Zealand, but unfortunately these places were just 10-20 years behind the UK and are now in similar positions.
I know and work with a lot of Brits who all left England 10-20 years ago for a better life, and may of them now think they should've just stayed there new countries are almost as bad as the UK.
 
I lived in the UK in the late 80's, and then again on the early 2000's. The difference between the two windows was absolutely stark. When the Thatcher generation aged out, it was all over for the UK.
It largely depends where you've go, yes the whole country has changed but there is a huge difference between London/Birmingham and Shropshire/Cotswolds.

Just like LA/NYC vs Wyoming/Idaho.
 
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I bet almost all of these Labour rascals from low tier to the high end had a sudden short term loss of bladder control when they saw footage of Luigi Mangione's pistol ejecting a cloud of powder gases and his target collapsing on a wintry Manhattan street last month...

Even though opinions surrounding Luigi's motives and actions remain polarized and heated, one thing is without a doubt: He showed the entire world how results are achieved in a very short amount of time. Another major health insurance company rolled back a controversial new plan to place time limits on surgical anesthesia, almost overnight. A thousand protests, rallies, vigils, emotional appeal posts made online would not have made them reverse that decision. But one man's actions made them scrambling to suddenly become good guys like they had seen the Devil himself. And these Labour politicians know deep inside themselves that there are grieving parents and victims of their "diversity" out there who have now become adults and still holding on to righteous hate, and then across the ocean this guy wearing a hoodie showed them on an early morning another course of action that even a completely disenfranchised population could take at any time to settle grievances. How many want to bet that after December 6th, more beads of sweat are now perpetually on foreheads at any given time?...
 
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I lived in the UK in the late 80's, and then again on the early 2000's. The difference between the two windows was absolutely stark. When the Thatcher generation aged out, it was all over for the UK.
I lived in the US in the 80s and then the 2000s came around and still lived here. The difference between the two is mind boggling!
 
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