Reply #5: Britain's economy most certainly did collapse/decline

[Tyrone Slothrop]

As did it's position as the world's leading superpower -- which it held for most of the 18th and 19th centuries. Britain's empire rivaled even Rome's less than a century ago. Now ask yourself when in the past 50 years anyone has referred to Britain as "a superpower".

This took place at the beginning of the 20th Century. You should do some reading on the General Strike of 1926.