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The nuke question to me also seems to expose a paradox in our electorate: the notion that we should be a nuclear superpower on the global stage, up there with America, Russia, India and China; at the same time we should brexit-retreat back into our little island, happy in the notion that we 70 million (preferably 50m if we can get rid of all those darn foreigners) should have a nuclear sabre to rattle along side the big boys.
As @Scilly.Suffolk pointed out above, having Trident is very much like bringing a palette knife to a gun fight when we are talking about nations with populations that are measure in hundreds of millions if not billions.
New world order and globalisation has, again, run ahead of us and we should adapt. Embrace change. Let's sort out our own house and let go of this Post-Deco fantasy of world leadership.
When I was growing up, watching Ethiopian children starve I felt so lucky that I had been born in the UK. I could not conceive of a better place to live. Although I still feel ridiculously lucky and privileged, I sometimes now wish I was Scandinavian or Dutch. Their sense of contentment with their place in the world is something to envy.