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it's dispiriting still to see 'tiny irrelevant island' discourse from fellow remainers/opposition people because a) it's deeply unhelpful rhetoric with the electorate, and b) it's a similarly fantastic vision of Britain's place in the world which ...
ends up abdicating a lot of political responsibility domestically, in Europe, and in the wider world. Britain is a large and wealthy democracy, dwarfed by both the current and the rising hegemon, incapable of an entirely unilateral foreign policy, but certainly capable of playing
a role on the world stage. The remainer argument was that, like France and Germany, the EU provided a manageable forum in which to maximise our not insignificant influence. It was not (or shouldn't have been) that we are powerless.
the Left - broadly so understood - needs to strangle its orwellian national inferiority complex asap, if it wants either to win elections or govern effectively
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