Norway and Switzerland - one has huge amounts of oil, the other stores crooked money...and both are far more connected into the EU than the UK is. Australia...

Norway and Switzerland - one has huge amounts of oil, the other stores crooked money...and both are far more connected into the EU than the UK is. Australia....a great country but not a world power. 40 million people on a continent where the UK is 70 million people on an area 31 times smaller. Even if you ignore the desert it's such a different story. The whole thing is just ridiculous - the UK needs to be teamed up somehow. The Empire made people think this was unnecessary but that never was true and it's now a hopeless sentiment. We accept that NATO is critical....but teaming up is critical for every other aspect of life - especially if we are to preserve our values in the face of other big groupings that are far far less nice.