That kind of thing is easy while you are riding on the plundered wealth coming in from countries that were forcibly privatized and plundered by the neoliberal economics that Reagan & Thatcher pushed onto entire world mainly through the power of the US military. The UK was handling the financial leg of all those shenanigans along with laundering black money in London while the far-away shires rotted and only kept functional thanks to the Eu financial aid directly going to those regions. Things started going south at the moment the plunder stopped. And Brexit stopped the Eu financial aid sustaining the remote regions, so everyone in the UK is descending down to the same hell now.