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I don't really have a horse in this game, but "70M is paltry in comparison to most countries"? 70M puts the UK at the 21st most populous out of 235 countries.

• dijit 6y ago
  I understand what you're saying, what I intended was that our population size is not as impressive as some other countries which do not boast our influence, and therefore is not a useful predictor of influence as the parent implies. I would not say that we have influence that is in proportion to our size. Would you? I would argue we're probably in the top 10 influential countries list, if not top 5, we overwhelmingly got our way when we were in the EU so we had quite significant amounts of influence there too which gave us even more power on the world stage, certainly not '21st'.