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I'm still trying to work out exactly what the UK gains from this "special relationship". We paid back the loans in full in 2004, can we start acting like a sov

• cojadate 17y ago
  It perplexes me too, especially after Tony Blair committed political suicide by joining in with the invasion of Iraq. Churchill established it as a lynchpin of British foreign policy, as absolute and unquestionably valid as the old "maintain a balance of power in Europe", and it just seems to have stuck ever since, regardless of the costs.