Submitted 3 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-weak-poll-world-perception-negative-b2835695.html
Just 1 in 4 Brits think the UK is viewed positively on the world stage, with most wanting their country to play a large role in international affairs, exclusive poll shows
We don’t think it’s because we took over a quarter of the globe for a hundred years and taught everyone English then?
It must be because they’re all gagging for chicken nuggets and chips at a Best Western.
Yeah, as someone who’s lived there and outside, 100% correct. Seen as weak and it’s citizens are seen and loud, stupid and ignorant. The dried residue of a wet fart let go by a long dead empire but it also matters so little now and the world is focused on the orange shart released by collective stupidity of the US, another soon to be dead empire if history is anything to go by.
Just 1 in 4 Brits think the UK is viewed positively on the world stage, with most wanting their country to play a large role in international affairs, exclusive poll shows
I — American — view the UK positively in international affairs, but frankly, if you’re comparing the UK to its recent history:
The UK itself has grown, but a lot of international influence came from the UK being, globally, at the leading edge of the Industrial Revolution. That’s a discovery-of-fire level event, a pretty rare situation in human history.
That was a major part of the Great Divergence; the UK was highly developed, and pulled wildly more than its weight in per capita terms.
If the bar that a Briton is setting is relative to the UK’s international role over the past couple centuries, that’s a high bar to set, because the UK had extraordinary influence in the world in that period. That’s not because the UK’s economy has become weaker, but because the world has been economically converging; less-developed countries have been catching up. I’d say that the UK definitely punches well above its weight in population terms internationally today, and is probably relatively-engaged. Could it do more? Well, I’m sure it could. But I don’t really think of the UK as especially isolationist. Name another country of 70 million that independently has as large an impact internationally.
The thing is who cares, its not my dad could beat up your dad, lets sink quietly back into obscurity. London is still a major financial centre and our economy is good enough to be in the g7,who spends time worrying whether people think we’re weak.
Is that a bad thing?
Do people want to be known as the world bully?
We tried that once before remember, wasn’t exactly a great time for the rest of the world.
Naich@lemmings.world 3 days ago
Brexit took us off the world stage in Europe. For fucks sake. What do these fuckwits actually want? Fucking twats.
Jrockwar@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Duh. It’s weak because of Brexit, it needs to be soft touch because it’s lost the influence to be anything else.