If you were to tear up the way everything was set up and start again, then the Scandinavian model is probably the one you'd go for, but it's obviously not that simple.
There is a completely different mentality there, along with a very different set of circumstances.
The gap between the highest paid and lowest paid is much smaller, which is a good thing, but they're very small countries to manage, with a very outward looking attitude and decades of building to where they are now (they didn't have to build from a position of being country decimated by war, which ended up covered in sprawling council estates and integrating millions of people from its colonies and all sorts of other factors)
British businesses usually concentrate on building businesses in Britain, which expand beyond our shores if they're successful. In Denmark, they think very differently, because Denmark is so small, they see their market as Europe not just Denmark. With a small population and a great deal of income generated from outside the country, their model is a far more practical proposition.
Germany is a slightly different situation, unlike us, they managed to maintain a manufacturing business by moving into manufacturing premium goods and they remain a massive exporter of goods internationally. While they were building VW/Audi, Mercedes, BMW and Porsche into worldwide premium car brands, we were merging all ours into a nationalised industry making utter ****e that nobody wanted.
