The British hide their corruption behind their arrogance. From Eduardo Vasco at strategic-culture.org:
Because the British are very arrogant, they still think that the rest of the world is a crowd of subjects. Subservient support for the United States guarantees them only some survival, but few privileges.
The victory in the Second World War was the swan song of the British Empire. What we saw after that was an unbridled decline, which only avoided reaching rock bottom because the British clung to the Americans to save themselves. As a result, they became an appendage of the American empire. This began with the war itself. Before it, the British and the Americans competed for world markets. In Latin America itself, British competitiveness was only overcome by the United States after the start of the Second World War. Subsequently, the Crown lost hundreds of millions of subjects with the independence of about 50 colonies that became nations in the following three decades.
Today, the empire where the sun never set is nothing more than nostalgia. Because the British are very arrogant, they still think that the rest of the world is a crowd of subjects. Subservient support for the United States guarantees them only some survival, but few privileges. When Bush invaded and devastated Iraq, British companies were left with the pulp, the juice of which was consumed by American multinationals. But Tony Blair’s successors maintained their vulture policy (even though the Chilcot Inquiry ruled that their participation in the invasion of Iraq was illegal) and for over a year they have been bombing Yemen together with the Americans, in the name of freeing the seas for navigation… by the U.S., which has long since replaced London as the great maritime power.
Keep calm and allahu ackbar or Enoch Powell has the last laugh.