Due to inflation, energy crisis, worsening pay and conditions, increasingly authoritarian right wing govts, the impending collapse of the NHS, higher education entry criteria choking the number of graduates, etc.
I’m reasonably sure the final straw would be a currency crisis. A stable currency feels like imperial privilege.
Has anything been written on this? The characteristics of imperial core countries, I mean. I’d be interested to know if there are any examples of countries that have ceased to be core countries that have been analysed through a Marxist lense.
These things have been chipped away at for a long time. Free university is a long distance memory and the NHS is being attacked year on year. A big problem in the UK is the voting power is with the over 65s. A lot who have already paid off their mortgages and retired a long time ago. As long as you pander to these people you can do whatever you want to the rest of the population. Pensions will remain paid and popularism like attacking immigrants along with flag shagging will be the order of the day.