Yes, the UK is so unsuccessful a large number of Indians want to move there every year.

Being a better place to live than India is an extremely low bar.

Source: Lived in India for 15 years.

Just for economical reasons, not because of great culture or anything like that.

Haha. The "Magic Soil" theory. The UK (and Western culture in general) is the cause of the economic success. They are indivisible.

The aristocrats were removed long ago. Bankers have run the UK since the Age of Sail.

Fine, it's not as much an aristocracy as a more general nobility, to an extent competing with foreign oligarchs and governments for control.

E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords and so on.

Yes, these days our prime ministers normal, everyday knights, etonians and billionaires. Sometimes they'll be photographed without a tie, or they'll have a chummy nickname like Tony or Dave or Liz.

You know, normal people like you and me.