I guess a lot of what we Yanks think we know about the UK is really just about London.
Londonistan is gone, fallen.
It has 2 massive problems. And in no way represents this country as a whole.
Biggest issue is that while when I was a kid it was almost all white british traditional people that had a long history here going back to much longer than the UShas existed along with most of the housing and buildings etc, it no longer does. It was infiltrated by 2 types of people during my lifetime, to the point where most of the londoners have moved out to the rest of the country. Guess where most of the crime, stabbings, single parents, and drug or other undesirable problems are?
It is now a dirty, 3rd world shit hole that has a minority of white british in some areas and practically non at all in others. These predomanantly black african (note that these are not the same as your blacks but sub saharan african - many are extreme muslims too, with all the culture and IQ problms that come with it) or middle eastern muslims that build mosques and try to change all the laws and agitate to change the way we live to their ways... Whats more the few that are white british can be pretty much lumbed together as lefties. In general they are EU loving remainers. London is full of them. They love anything that wants to destroy the western rich capitalist world, and so green, net zero, socialist and marxist nonsense, and so on. This stuff all seems to be highly predictable just by appearance. I can tell a lefty from london by appearance (a mile away) pretty much garanteed. Nose rigs, green or blue hair is their uniform. It shouldnt be but it is.
Scotland and london all vote socialist. Love net zero and anything else that goes along with socialist or marxist values. The rest of the country voted to LEAVE the EU, which meant border control, immigration control, taking back control of our country and our laws. The political classes also hated this and still have not really done it.
A massive country wide divide. If anything bigger than you see between your conservative texas, and that californian left. In the UK london, and scotland are socialist voters. The red bit is normal england... Leave and white british.