as they are ideologically committed to maintaining the system for optimal extraction: so their rich buddies can make as much they can from the British people without the system cracking.
I think the same applies to the US and also here in Japan. How long before the system cracks? I just read a piece the other day about how a good half of workers in Japan can no longer afford groceries comfortably. Wages have been stagnant for... well, about 3 decades in Japan. But everyday goods and houses are jumping in price every year.
It's the same all over the world, all that money going to tax havens and with the return on capital so low the logic is to just extract more and more, it makes no sense - we need to focus on redistribution!