Starting to get to point why. After all you are in IOM and half the problems in Britain do not affect you. So why the obsession every day to post blinkered biased sources from articles you read showing all these faults about UK whilst ignoring the fact every country is the same until pushed to agree.
It's a reasonable question that I'm happy to answer, it's because I'm fascinated by this stuff. History was my favourite subject at school (there was no Politics GCSE), Politics and History were the two A Levels I enjoyed most (English Language was the other, and General Studies, if you want to count that) and then I studied Politics and History at Uni, where unfortunately the wheels came off the wagon somewhat and gambling, drink and drugs took over. (If I'd ever graduated (which I didn't) I wanted to be a history teacher.)
Specifically, I found the history of the UK, and its politics (past and present) by far and away the most interesting, being as it was my own country, and I wanted to learn about what had moulded its society and its political structures - the things I saw around me every day, where had they come from? What made them the way they are?
That interest has never left me, so even now, knocking on the door on the age of 50, I still want to learn, and to understand, the same as I did back at college and Uni, and indeed as I have my whole life.
It's not about wanting to prove that the UK is 'the worst', it's the just the country I'm interested in, I try to take some interest in international politics but honestly, it doesn't fire me up in anything like the way that UK Politics does - and yes, maybe that gives me a bit of a blind spot on some of this stuff. (I only got so heavily invested in the EU/Brexit side of things because of how leaving the EU would impact the UK, prior to 2016 I couldn't have really told you much about the EU, or our relationship with it.)
Yes I live on the IOM and have done since I moved here permanently in 1996, but I still slavishly follow UK Politics and keep myself very much up to date, by the time Blair won the 1997 election I didn't live in the UK, but I stayed up until the small hours of the morning to watch the results come in, delighted that the UK would have a Labour government. (The delight didn't entirely last, and whilst I maintain to this day that New Labour did a lot of good stuff, there were many things they did I profoundly disagree with, if we were in the last term of the Blair government today, I'd have plenty of less than complimentary things to say about them here at CM.)
For me, everything that is happening in UK politics now can be traced straight back to the disastrous Brexit referendum. The referendum saw off Cameron, Brexit saw off May, it was what put Johnson in power before devouring him, and now it's given us Truss, who in less than three weeks has managed to set fire to the entire UK economy.
The Bank of England has already had to spin up the printing press and the IMF are giving us a bollocking for acting like an emerging economy. All the while Truss is incoherently screaming GROWTH GROWTH GROWTH - (well, not at the moment since she appears to have disappeared) - when the one thing that could actually give us significant growth (getting back into the Single Market and Customs Union) is also the one thing she will refuse to do thanks to her batshit ideology.
Against that backdrop, as someone who has been fascinated by politics and history (specifically UK politics and history) since I was a teenager, yes, I'm taking a very keen interest in all of it. I make no secret of my political leanings but I am genuinely agog at those who can look at this absolutely shower of clowns and even remotely defend what they're up to (for example the mini-budget last Friday), or try to hand-wave it away because the yuan is struggling against the dollar. The same goes for 'they're all the same', because they're really not.
It's a true a good amount of this stuff doesn't directly affect me, but a lot of it does too, the IOM's economy has very close ties to the UK in many regards. Moreover, my entire extended family remains in the UK, at the end of last week I had to lend my brother some money to get him to the end of the month, this is in a household with two full time workers, but they're struggling, they have a mortgage and two children, many bills to pay, and I'm sure we've all noticed that everything's getting more expensive. So when Truss and Kwarteng decide to throw an interest rate rise hand grenade into the UK economy, that's affecting my brother and his family.
It's not like I go trolling around the forums with this stuff, I keep it on-topic and in the relevant threads, I never resort to personal abuse or attacks, and I don't bear any grudges, and will happily chat to anyone about other subjects in other threads - but yes, get me in the politics threads and I'll talk about politics.