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Nick Dunlop's avatar

This cuts to the very heart of our national problems. The terrible and deeply held delusion that we are still a major player on the global stage, entitled and able to influence events. We aren't. We need friends and a clear, new strategy. Europe it is.

David Cairns's avatar

A closer relationship with those of our European neighbours supporting Ukraine and already defending themselves against hybrid Russian aggression is surely, now, an existential necessity for the UK?

Paul Young's avatar

Anyone who has served or worked overseas in large multi-national organisations will understand that while we bring excellent thinkers and expertise to the operation/project we are few in number (it is only there that we punch above our weight). In respect of everything else we are way behind the power curve.

The 'big fish' proponents are pursuing their own selfish and self-agrandising agenda, or that of their foreign backers (plug in BoJo, NF, SYL/TR, etc, etc). Brexit was, and remains, a vanity project and one which had failure and isolation written through its core, as will leaving the ECHR (being sold on the false premise that it's solely an immigration issue).

DJT has demonstrated that the free thinkers of the world cannot rely on the closed mind rationale and therefore the free thinkers need to pursue another route.