@Copernicus321
The only thing we have left as a nation is that we were essentially an honest people, we have law and low levels of corruption (anyone who knows India will know what is holding that nation back).
I think, sadly, that ship has sailed. When you look at High Streets full of money laundering Turkish barbers, hair/nail/tattoo salons, ethnic stores and mobile phone accessory shops, none of which ever appear to have customers yet manage to pay High Street rents and have a disproportionate number of workers hanging around, I don't think we can say we're "essentially honest" anymore.
Nor when you see all the illegal parking, speeding, driving through red lights, mobile phone use when driving, driving without seat belts, cars without valid road tax or MOT, etc etc.
Nor the open drug dealing on our streets. Nor the illegal electric bikes or scooters. Nor the open litter dropping, street drunken-ness, etc.
Then we come to benefit fraud and tax evasion, particularly the "black economy" of "cash in hand" payments to avoid income tax, VAT and NIC.
Over the 40 years I've been an accountant, I've seen a big increase in tax evasion and benefit fraud, mostly due to lack of any kind of enforcement at "street level" so people do a "little bit" of evasion, get away with it, and so do more, tell their friends and family, etc.
As there's no political will for better enforcement by the various government agencies, police, councils, etc., for the "small" crimes and rule breaking, I can only see things getting a lot worse.