Finance Broke Britain

British economic stagnation since 2008 owes less to a single policy like Brexit and more to an era of financialization: growth in the finance sector decoupled profits from productive investment, inflated asset prices and living costs, and starved public and industrial investment, leaving the country exposed to supply‑chain and geopolitical shocks. — If true, the diagnosis shifts policy debates from short‑term fixes (austerity vs. stimulus) to structural reforms of corporate governance, tax and industrial strategy to re‑tie profits to productive investment and public capacity.