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Originally Posted by bitontheslide

Anyway, long story short. The UK has always been a nation that stood on it's own feet, we were successful that way, it's in our nature. We are naturally untrusting of others, and through the generations that's been a very sensible outlook. Since the war, europe has tried to be peaceful ... and all credit for that, but world powers are always a threat, and the nature of threats change. I personally don't think that going it alone is necessarily a sensible strategy, but then, we don't know what our future holds, the only thing we know is that nothing is ever certain.

The UK "stood on its own feet" by exploiting and plundering half of the world and claiming it as "ours". Those days are long, LONG gone now and they're not coming back... The world is mapped and claimed. There are no more New Worlds, no more colonies, and the economy is increasing global. If we in the UK don't realise that soon, we're economically doomed to irrelevance.

As part of the EU, and we've always had the opportunity to be a driving force if we stopped driving with the handbrake on, we would be sitting at the top of an economic superpower that can compete with the US, China and the large emerging economies.

Alone we're insignificant.