Originally Posted by
Skroe
The Uk cannot say on one hand, "we're leaving the EU to be more influential in the world, richer, more security, and we'll only expand our security relationship through NATO and with America", and then on the other hand, scrap the HMS Ocean, among countless other instruments of that policy it has retired early the past seven years.
There would be a logical consistency with Brexit if the "Brexit Policy" was paired with an equal policy of rejuvenating the things that makes the UK independent powerful (i.e. like the power projection provided by the HMS Ocean). But there isn't a soul in the foreign policy world that thinks that is realistically going to happen, especially if the UK faces the projected budget woes.
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Or if you want to have a non-military dimension to this. how does post-Brexit Britain plan on being more influential in the world, when its foreign service is a fraction of the size of the one it had before the Iraq War? That is the very heart of Brexit. Just "Brexiting" isn't going to make it magically happen. The UK has to do it. It has to pay for the things that make it influential and powerful on its own, independent of the EU.
And there is no sign the UK is ready to do that.