https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/-we-are-no-longer-a-great-power-the-trouble-with-brexit
Pretty interesting speech. stevenk and other British folk, how did this make you feel?
We are no longer a great power. We will never be so again. In a world of nearly eight billion people, well under one per cent are British.
We are a top second-rank power but, over the next half century – however well we perform – our small size and population makes it likely we will be passed by the growth of other, far larger, countries.
In recent decades, we have consoled ourselves that we “punch above our weight” in international affairs. I think that was true: but that was then, and this is now.
Pretty interesting speech. stevenk and other British folk, how did this make you feel?