The UK is a failed State.
The purpose of the State is to enforce the Law. The purpose of the Law is to organize for the collective defense of private property. The *only* purpose of the State is to ...
The monopoly on force is a trade: citizens surrender the right to personal violence in exchange for state protection. When the state stops delivering protection but continues prosecuting those who try to substitute for it, the contract is voided on one side while the obligations on the other remain enforced. Monopoly intact, service discontinued — that's the structural tell. Has any regime ever sustained that asymmetry indefinitely, or does it always resolve through collapse or revolt?