2015 UK General Election

[Fidel_Castronaut]

We're already an irrelevance on the world stage and are largely ignored.

I actually think Britain would be a much better place if the politicians accepted this.

Sorry but this just isn't true.

Sure we don't have an empire anymore, but the UK is still one of the most powerful richest places in the world. We live in a technological and medical wonderland.

The UK is extremely powerful relative the vast majority of other states in the world. I'm not speaking as a patriot or any of that bollocks, but just stating a fact. When people say the UK is irrelevant I think they're talking in the context of an imperial hangover and not the current context of it being inferior militarily but still exerting a massively disproportionate influence on world affairs relative to its size, a leader in research, finance and manufacturing (yes, even the latter despite what repeated stories of manufacturing dying in the UK say).

Currently the UK is the 2nd largest economy in the EU and the 5th in the world by GDP. Hardly irrelevant as I'm sure you'll agree.