It may seem off the cards due to their size and lack of empire. To become a superpower requires a nation to have significant political, economic, military and cultural influence. Britain still have a large amount of all of these things, holding a place in the UN security council and having the 5th largest military by expenditure. However, most of their influence comes from WW2, the commonwealth, colonies and other remnants of the empire. They are often in America's shadow.
Here's some methods I've thought of:
- Increased military arsenal; more battleships, submarines and more ships patrolling the seas.
- Mandatory conscription system similar to Switzerland.
- Investment into developing nations to encourage pro-British sentiment such as Canada and Australia.
- Australian style immigration system.
- Incentives for producing British media with distinct cultural value and distributing it around the world.
- Anglicization to counter Americanization.
- Increased funding to scientific institutions and the UK Space Agency and land on moon to become first man landed on moon.
- Make use of overseas territories.
- Invade and conquer United States of America.
That should cover it for now.
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- Invade and conquer United States of America.
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FOCKIN wut m8?
They couldn't even beat us when we were 13 colonies full of rebels and they were the worlds ruling empire! They could barely fight the [url=http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law]-godwinslaw!-[/url] off!
They couldn't accomplish that today unless they used nukes. And guess what, Americas track record with the Brits gives us the outcome. Not to mention the last island to -blam!- with America from an ocean away got firebombed and some uranium infused freedom bombs.
BRING IT CRUMPET BOYS!