Like a lot of people on the nationalist right, he claims to love his country while at the same time hating many of the people in it, harking back to a mythical past while criticising its modern incar… (View Post)

Indeed. Nothing Trump is doing surprises me. But I thought this was all so obvious that he couldn't possibly win the election. So I turned out to be dumb as well. (View Post)

The analogy with our US relationship is misplaced. First, we never became part of the USA, we have simply been a subservient ally. So we've had no input into US decision-making, and we're v… (View Post)

That is the trade off, obviously. I'd like to see a lot more decentralisation and local autonomy, for sure. But the UK is too small to be an effective foreign policy or defence player on its own… (View Post)

Personally I'd join both. I guess the point is that we had a bespoke deal that appeared to offer us some positives of membership while keeping a degree of distance as a sop to eurosceptic opinio… (View Post)