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Plan to Reverse Brexit With European Defence?

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M0nica Sun 15-Feb-26 19:16:08

And why not. The Brexxit referendum was over 10 years ago and the political and economic scene has changed in a way that no one, 10 years ago could possibly envisage.

The late, great economist, John Maynard Keynes was once criticised for changing his mind on a topic. His reply was - when conditions change I change also.

This is the situation we are in now. Polls now show that the majority of people now favour, if not re-entering the EU, at least having a much closer relationship with it.

If watching the spoken speech is too long and tedious a printed transcript of the speech can be found at www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-speech-during-the-munich-security-conference-14-february This can be read a lot more uickly

DaisyAnneReturns Sun 15-Feb-26 16:24:22

As always, it would be considered polite to watch the video. If you don't want to there are many other threads where you can offer your opinion. It's difficult to discuss a video with those who haven't seen it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTkcZmGeQQE

Keir Starmer's speech at the Munich Security Conference seemed to be talking about a sort of single integrated market for defence procurement. This would be one way to work on reversing brexit using our defence needs as the driver. But will the idea take on?