Britain is a fading power whose economy and population is going to fall relative to other countries over the next 50 years and no amount of chopping and changing governments is going to change that fact.
@anon_opin I mean we could pick a government that acknowledges that fact and leans into it rather than obsessing over whether we have nuclear weapons.
@anon_opin That "fall" is going to happen much sooner than 50 years away, more like <10. We're on the edge of a Western, 1920s style economic crash, when that happens, it's game over for UK US EU
Britain may be a fading power very dependent on US, at least when compared to the historic independent imperial Britain, but Britain still has a ton of capital amassed over the last 400 or so years and for now that still gives it a seat at the table of global power, provided ofc US remains the hegemon
@anon_opin the population bit isn't correct, although it depends on which "other countries" you choose. If relative to Europe, particularly Western Europe - Italy, Portugal, Spain and Greece all have shrinking populations now and are projected to be around half of their 2017 levels by 2100, which will be a huge problem The UK peaks in 2063, later than Germany (2035) and France (2042), and by 2100 will be about 5 per cent lower than 2017.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30677-2/fulltext?dgcid=tlcom_infographic_gbd-population-20_lancet
Fading power though - yup!