A1 Great Britain has to look at the longer term.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Britain can choose, as others are, short term fixes and more stimulus. Or we can lead the world with long-term solutions to long-term problems.
In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.
Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development.'
You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.
I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.
We don't need to chase a nostalgic rendering of Britain as it never was and never can be: we need instead an understanding of who we really are and what a happy, prosperous, just nation might look like.
The Blair government perhaps ranks as the best the U.K. has had for 50 years. It cannot match the scale of Attlee's reforms, but has a fine record of constitutional reform and economic competence. In my own areas - science and innovation - there have been well-judged and effective changes.
The idea of England in decline is very attractive.
I think you can look at the British economy with confidence.