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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
What lots of your rhetoric is masking is what some of us went around in circles with back in 2016 - we're a large country but we're negotiating with far larger blocs and countries. Size matters in negotiations and smaller entities do get bossed around. That's why I came to the same conclusion as Thatcher and Churchill - it's better to be in the tent pissing out than outside it getting wet.
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It does feel sometimes that a lot of people learnt nothing from the Suez Crisis - the last nail in the coffin of the British Empire. It's an argument that the creation of the EEC and EU was a direct reaction to the US ruffling the UK and Frances' hair and reminding us that we weren't the big boys any more