Point being if we were at the heart of the EU with influence, would be to down scale our individual force as we could rely more on pan EU partners in global peace keeping and defence responsibilities and stop bending over backwards to take trumps tiny cock - so scale is what drives down cost.
News just in via the Metro, the Army is 20 years out of date, needs £2bn investment and the best we could hope to do is seize a medium-size market town somewhere in Europe that’s accessible.
So that’s alright then - best get invading before the pan-Europe force gets going eh?
If The UK gets involved in a European defence pact it will add to the money they spend on Nato and the UN which the last time I looked everybody in Europe was party too (apart from a couple of Eastern European nations )
A forth tier of spending on defence as they would still have to man the barricades if the Europeans started to try and cross the channel again.
Why give the defence budget to somebody else when we have had the English Channel for centuries.
Yep, good old Blighty, standing on its own in a globalised world. Look, we’ve got two massive aircraft carriers. We can’t afford the planes to go on them and don’t have enough destroyers or frigates to defend them, bhut let’s not mention that.