Former British Prime Minister: Our country is no longer a great power

Great Britain is no longer a great world power. This is the conclusion reached by the British ex-Prime Minister John Major, who replaced Thatcher in this position in the early 1990s.

According to Major, at present the great powers are the United States of America, China and the European Union, solving global issues. In second place are the lesser powers such as Russia and Turkey, which interfere in the affairs of other states and subvert activities.

Great Britain, which was previously a world-class power, is no longer, the author writes. In his opinion, Britain is most likely a second-tier power. All statements that London still affects something follow from stories country and reputation gained in the intervening time.

We are no longer a great power. We will never be her again. In a world of nearly eight billion people, Brits are less than one percent. We are the leading second-tier power, and we will remain so for the next half century, no matter how successful we are. Our small size and small population means that we can be overtaken in growth rates by other, larger countries.

- he declares.

Everything the UK is currently underpinned by history, reputation, EU membership, and close ties to the US. At the same time, the US no longer wants to use Britain as a bridge between itself and Europe.

(...) we suddenly ceased to be an indispensable bridge between Europe and America. Now they need us less and less

- writes Major.

At the same time, the United Kingdom can use soft power to maintain its prestige and exclusivity. Where it is no longer possible to coerce by force, London should act with its influence, its diplomacy, the former prime minister sums up.

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[Borik]

So already 75 years as not great and he only now found out about it.

[Terenin]

Former British Prime Minister: Our country is no longer a great power

So , minus one! We keep moving ...

[credo]

Quote: Terenin

Former British Prime Minister: Our country is no longer a great power

So , minus one! We keep moving ...

Yes, he just pours out and pours water on the mill of the current government.
Did he decide, like the old men Biden and Trump, to shake the old days and again take the place of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?

[krot]

Former British Prime Minister: Our country is no longer a great power

But the Briton continues to spoil the rest of the countries in the same way, either pitting them against each other, then building various intrigues, such as with the Skripals .. It's time for the scrap of earth parasites.

[halpat]

Quote: krot

Former British Prime Minister: Our country is no longer a great power

But the Briton continues to spoil the rest of the countries in the same way, either pitting them against each other, then building various intrigues, such as with the Skripals .. It's time for the scrap of earth parasites.

in-in.
trifle like a toad, and the stench and manure, like from a diplodocus.

[Turanov]

Quote: Terenin

Former British Prime Minister: Our country is no longer a great power

So , minus one! We keep moving ...

Laughter and sin Gennady .. They have only exes in the west! As they retire in old age, they begin to speak such adequate speeches .. You are really amazed! They are afraid to say something against the current government, and this is very noticeable. Double standards, and also democracy ..
We have the power to caster, only the fluff flies, and even more money is received for this ..))))

[Terenin]

Quote: Turanov

As they retire in old age, they begin to speak such adequate speeches .. You are really amazed!

Vitaly, don't give a damn about these Puritans. They have always been and will continue to bend their line.

Quote: Turanov

We have the power to caster, only the fluff flies, and even more money is received for this ..))))

The most funny thing is that this big money is paid by the authorities themselves.

[Vladimir Mashkov]

John, like all retired Western retirees, has received his sight. Partially. He's right about England, of course. But about Russia, he habitually lies!

[Turanov]

Quote: Terenin

Vitaly, don't give a damn about these Puritans. They have always been and will continue to bend their line.

We have studied their gene well in the west, but their vassals inside the country have not been very much so far ..

Quote: Terenin

The most funny thing is that this big money is paid by the authorities themselves.

That's what I am about ..And they feel very good, so sometimes they will poison themselves again for the old .. Suffer and whine they already have drugs and earnings
And all of them are "oppositionists", and even earlier the dissidents were pretty well-off or were becoming so .. And they don't work anywhere! Judas have to endure

[Gene84]

Quote: Turanov

they are all "oppositionists"

You cannot compare an oppositionist with a protest. A real oppositionist, he speaks from a patriotic position, but he does not care against whom and for whom.

[venik]

Quote: Turanov

They are afraid to say something against the current government and this is very noticeable

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No, they are not afraid! Simply, as long as they are without the prefix "ex-" - they themselves are an element, a "cog" of this power .... Well, and only when "fell out of the cage" - well, then it is already possible and "truth-womb" cut in the eye - somehow remind others about yourself (beloved!). After all, "going into political oblivion" is very painful for them. And here, although scandalous, but still reminder!

[Turanov]

Quote: venik

No, they are not afraid! Simply, as long as they are without the prefix "ex-" - they themselves are an element, a "cog" of this power ....

And what about in Russia then? Vaughn Medvedev is remembered as such a sugary Westerner was and is, and Kudrin openly shouts the Khan of Russia for what year, etc. We tolerate nothing, let alone the rest of the riffraff who stuck at all .. Chubais alone is worth something, in the west he would have blabbed for 300 years and the deeds done .. But he does not live and prosper .. Here she is a real democracy we get in Russia! Now the Liberdons have quieted down, as pogroms began in the USA and massacres in France ..
Here's what to do with them? Further feed from the budget, the same Echo and Mikhalkov from Goskino?
You can't understand Russia with your mind, you can't measure it with an yardstick, you can only believe in RUSSIA! ..

[Chervonny]

Quote: Turanov

Chubais alone is worth something, in the west he would have blabbed for 300 years and the deeds done

Putin said that everything is in order with Chubais. So no one will touch him.

[Gene84]

Quote: Turanov

Kudrin openly shouts the Khan of Russia for what year

What kind of oppositionist is he? He is a supporter of the current government. They have no differences among themselves.

[Alex Justice]

We have a caster of power, only the fluff flies, and even more money is received for this

I have never seen any serious disputes in the Russian Duma. I saw it in England.

[Turanov]

Quote: Alex Justice

We have a caster of power, only the fluff flies, and even more money is received for this

I have never seen any serious disputes in the Russian Duma. I saw it in England.

Are these puffy "gentlemen" arguing in England? There they have for a long time all the roles are distributed and everything is divided .. We found someone to put as an example .. Your English humor, too press. No offense!
Well, to be honest, our Duma has also turned into a chicken coop, but I think if something can cheer up the country, if it can be radically changed for what I AM FOR!

[Gene84]

Quote: Turanov

if you change it radically

Take away their parliamentary immunity, put them on an average wage, and that's it, a miracle will happen

[Gene84]

Quote: Alex Justice

I saw it in England.

Look at the Ukrainian Rada and the Taiwan Parliament, you will also like it.

[Gene84]

Quote: Turanov

How they retire in their old age they begin to speak such adequate speeches.

They cannot tell the truth while in office. Otherwise, they will not "live" long at the trough. After that, they don't care, you can cut the truth-uterus

[Alexey RA]

Quote: Borik

So already 75 years as not great and he only now found out about it.

To be precise, 64 years old. The key moment is the unsuccessful invasion of Egypt in 1956, when Britain and France were simultaneously pulled back by the USSR and the USA.

[Turanov]

Quote: Alexey RA

Quote: Borik

So already 75 years as not great and he only now found out about it.

To be precise, 64 years old. The key moment is the unsuccessful invasion of Egypt in 1956, when Britain and France were simultaneously pulled back by the USSR and the USA.

Yes, there were times of counterbalance in the bipolar world .. And they were not particularly rude, as now.

[Gene84]

There was no rudeness. Everyone knew that the answer would not be long in coming

[Leeds]

Quote: Alexey RA

Quote: Borik

So already 75 years as not great and he only now found out about it.

To be precise, 64 years old. The key moment is the unsuccessful invasion of Egypt in 1956, when Britain and France were simultaneously pulled back by the USSR and the USA.

Well, when a traveler descended from a donkey in a rubber boat and who lives on money from the British breaks the cross in broad daylight, climbing up to the church, where generations have been sending prayers for 900 years, and everyone is watching in silence, filming, then it is worth thinking about greatness.

[avg]

Quote: Borik

So already 75 years as not great and he only now found out about it.

I, unlike John Major, knew this from childhood, and therefore always called them small-shaven, but big dirty tricks.

[Terenin]

Where it is no longer possible to coerce by force, London should act with its influence, its diplomacy, the ex-prime minister sums up.

The ex-prime minister forgot to add ... and his centuries-old habit - to crap everywhere and play off states and peoples among themselves ...

[Revolver]

Quote: Borik

So already 75 years as not great and he only now found out about it.

Well, no need, Argentos in the Falklands were notoriously heaped. And they still have a vigorous loaf. And a couple of aircraft carriers.

[faiver]

such as Russia and Turkey, leading to interference in the affairs of other states and subversive activities

- that's really who noted in this field of activity, it is just Great Britain, and for centuries ...

[Hunter 2]

Well, with the assignment to the great powers of the EU, the Major clearly got excited. The EU is not a homogeneous entity, in fact, it does not affect the World processes, it is tied to itself, and the members of the Union are soft ... some in the forest, some for wood. And whether the EU will survive after the Naglo-Saxons leave it is also a question.
It is also interesting by what criteria he made this assessment. But with the fact that small-shavens are no longer included in the club - I agree.

[voyaka uh]

International decisions, however, are taken by the EU as a single entity. That is, the EU can be defined as a "federal" power.
Britain has left the great powers, Russia keeps only strategic nuclear weapons in this club, China has joined the club.

[faiver]

Russia is kept in this club only by strategic nuclear weapons

- so it seems that Britain also possesses it, they just decide for it, and often decisions are made for the EU on another continent ...

[dzvero]

In the place of the EU, I would definitely put the Russian Federation in the top three. The EU is too amorphous and bureaucratic formation to actively influence and, most importantly, in real time, on world processes.

[iouris]

Britain has not gone anywhere. She is everywhere.

[Revolver]

Quote: iouris

Britain has not gone anywhere. She is everywhere.

Well, she left the EU, or at least in the process of leaving.

[iouris]

Forgives, but does not leave. If Trump does not win, then it is not yet clear how the "withdrawal" will end: maybe he will still lead what remains of the EU.
In the meantime, "our" money in Londongrad is working against, MI6 is planning and orienting Erdogan, who surrounds and dissects ... You cannot drink skill (right away).

[Krasnodar]

The EU is Germany, France, Italy. The rest - insofar as.

[Hunter 2]

Quote: Krasnodar

The EU is Germany, France, Italy. The rest - insofar as.

Well, he took and "offended" 25 countries , other "full" EU members!

[Krasnodar]

Okay - let's add Sweden! The rest - by car:
Moers, Beha, Audi, Opel
Citroen, Peugeot, Ren
Lamborghini, Ferrari, Fiat, Iveco
Volvo, Saab
Well, figs with her, add Spain with her Seat
The rest are not members. And strictly the opposite

[Lynx2000]

Quote: Krasnodar

Okay - let's add Sweden! The rest - by car:
Moers, Beha, Audi, Opel
Citroen, Peugeot, Ren
Lamborghini, Ferrari, Fiat, Iveco
Volvo, Saab
Well, figs with her, add Spain with her Seat
The rest are not members. And strictly the opposite

The alignments have changed, as in world politics:
Moers - Germans
Volkswagen is Porsche, Audi, Bugatti, Skoda, Seat, Scania
Renault-Nissan, Japanese ears stick out (Renault, Nissan, Samsung and a lobule in the VAZ)
Citroen-Peugeot, yes French.
Beha - Rolls-Royce, Mini.
Opel was American GM, became French PSA
Volvo - was at Ford, became the Chinese Geely. Saab seems to have been part of Volvo, he does not produce cars, I don’t know who owns it, probably Sweden, if he produces aircraft.

[Gene84]

Quote: Krasnodar

The EU is Germany, France, Italy

I disagree about Italy. The main leading players in the EU are only France and Germany.

[Doccor18]

Former British Prime Minister: Our country is no longer a great power

Finally. Got it ...

[Gene84]

The giraffe reaches faster than them.

[Lionnvrsk]

Quote: Borik

So already 75 years as not great and he only now found out about it.

Yes, Great Britain is Great Britain!

[soul]

Former British Prime Minister: Our country is no longer a great power

Very self-critical ... the locals will surely knock him on the head

[voyaka uh]

All British people have long accepted this reality. They have absolutely no imperial breakdown. You won't hear "Great Britain" from an Englishman, only "Britain".

[Terenin]

Quote: voyaka uh

All British people have long accepted this reality. They have absolutely no imperial breakdown. You won't hear "Great Britain" from an Englishman, only "Britain".

I would n hasten to be touched by them. For example, British historian Leif Jerram thinks differently. This is not Russia a powerful state, but Britain or the United States.
He recently stated that Russia has never inspired anyone to imitate, which means that it is not a superpower.

[voyaka uh]

Historians of all countries - large and small, strong and weak - have megalomania
It is important what the common people feel in general.

[Pereira]

Nobody here says Great Russia. Everyone says Russia. So what?

[voyaka uh]

Great Britain Great Britain was the official name of the state.
You were officially: Russian Empire, USSR, Russia (or Russian Federation).

[Pereira]

You can, of course, find fault with the terms. And I could long and interesting speculate about the meaning of the prefix "great" to the name of the state.
But it's not about that. The name of the state can be anything. It is important what a person puts into this word. Does an ordinary Englishman feel himself a worthy person or is he ready to kneel before a gopot? Is it a military review (tv.a.r.b) he trembling or has the right?
I have not been to England. You were? What do ordinary Englishmen feel themselves to be? Creatures dropped by the negroes? Or do they have the right? Tell us. I would be truly grateful.

Shl. Specially wrote the phrase T. God's Word. The word creature disappears. Apparently, VO grunts against God. Where are zoo ... conservationists looking?

[voyaka uh]

It so happened that I visited England many times.
My son lived in London for several years. And before that I was a tourist there.
Englishmen - silent people, Spartan habits, liven up
only in pubs when they get drunk. They are polite, but if you get them, they are suddenly aggressive.
No prefaces and abuse.
They are difficult to deal with if you are sociable yourself. But great
if you are a loner.
They have humor ... I remember, for some reason: somehow I gave way in a cafe very
an elderly couple. The man then came up and said: "You, young man,
go to heaven. But I will get there (he raised his voice) much earlier than you! "
In general, I would not write off England completely "in reserve" :)))

[OgnennyiKotik]

Quote: voyaka uh

In general, I would not write off England completely "in reserve"

England changed the way of fighting. From rough physical, soft financial. London is the world center of finance. All the money in the world goes through it. She is behind all the recent wars. In Karabakh as well. By the way, today the head of MI6 flew to Ankara.

[voyaka uh]

Exaggeration. Especially in military intrigues. And in finance
they move out gradually. Otherwise, Brexit would not have caused such an outflow of capital.

[OgnennyiKotik]

Quote: voyaka uh

Exaggeration. Especially in military intrigue

I meant Libya, Syria, Karabakh. Where are her interests. Naturally, all the wars in the world are of little concern to her.

Quote: voyaka uh

And in finance
they move out gradually. Otherwise, Brexit would not have caused such an outflow of capital.

I do not agree, there is simply no other such platform in the world. Yes, there are graters with continental Europe, some of their money and related structures have gone, but this does not diminish the role of London. And over this year, the Anglo-Turkish coalition has seriously hit the interests of France, especially in Libya.

[voyaka uh]

"there is simply no other such platform in the world" ////
----
This is the "old playground".
Traditionally, Arab sheikhs travel to London to carry out transactions,
Indian and Russian oligarchs.
But innovation in finance (like everything else) comes from California.
All sorts of blockchain and cryptocurrencies will inevitably ruin English banks.

[OgnennyiKotik]

Quote: voyaka uh

But innovation in finance (like everything else) comes from California.

Only then they all ask for the London Stock Exchange and the investor's goal is to get there.

Quote: voyaka uh

All sorts of blockchain and cryptocurrencies will inevitably ruin English banks.

The significance is exaggerated. He himself led the development on the blockchain and worked with the crypto market. Cryptomarket is another Tulip fever, no more. Blockchain technology has its advantages, but many disadvantages and very critical ones. After a couple of years, everyone will finally forget about them.

[voyaka uh]

The London Stock Exchange is oil, metals, raw materials. Insurance for all this.
London is real estate.
There is almost no hi-tech in it, no startups.

[zwlad]

The UK, which was previously a world-class power, is no longer, the author writes.

You don't tell the queen the main thing, grandma will be upset.

[tralflot1832]

As exes become, clever thoughts appear, though not all of them.

[venik]

"...We are no longer a great power. We will never be her again. ..."
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Eco, however, "discovered America"! To "giraffe (sorry! John Major) - just now it got it?" Well, these "brits" are slow-witted!

[Turist1996]

Suddenly I saw the light! But the passage about "exclusivity" was nevertheless screwed up to maintain a minimum level of FSV (Feeling of Own Greatness) - look, how annoying that is!
Well, now they can be practically officially called the United Kingdom. With reference to the ex-prime minister! Still, not the last person in their political get-together ..

[Paragraph Epitafievich Y.]

Yes ... Once upon a time the PM of the Kingdom looked like degenerate aristocrats, now - like freaks. Where is the world going ...

[7,62x54]

Not great, but will become even smaller after the departure of the "immortal dracula on the throne"

[parusnik]

While in retirement, the ex-prime minister was struck by an inspiration, which is typical, that many Western politicians get an inspiration when they are already in retirement.

[AB]

United Kingdom? Great Britain is an ISLAND on which the United Kingdom is located. She has long ceased to be the great Great Britain. Now it is a small, spiteful country puffing out its cheeks in an attempt to teach everyone and point out to everyone, but no one needs it anymore. After Brexit, money is fleeing from it, business, if not for Covid, would have long faded to the mainland and to the States. In the second echelon, it keeps only because of the presence of nuclear weapons.

[aszzz888]

AB (Alexey)
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United Kingdom? Great Britain is the ISLAND on which the United Kingdom is located. She has long ceased to be the great Great Britain. Now it is a small, spiteful country puffing out its cheeks in an attempt to teach everyone and point out to everyone, but no one needs it anymore. After Brexit, money is running out of it, business if not for Covid, he would have fled to the mainland and to the States long ago. In the second echelon, it keeps only because of the presence of nuclear weapons.

Did your eyes just now open?

[Gene84]

Quote: AB

Now it is a small, spiteful country puffing out its cheeks in an attempt to teach everyone and point out to everyone, but no one needs it anymore.

The description for Poland and the Baltic countries is similar

[2 Level Advisor]

And now there are no great powers - independent in the sense of politics for the sake of the population, and not the earnings of the magnates ..
There are a bunch of those who pull the right strings .. they have no nationality, despite the fact that they have some kind of passport .. but they have bags of money and influence .. this is called global capitalism ..
and if someone interferes with them, once for a thread and bombed, a two-color revolution .. Although there are still countries and forces that resist them .. but they are less and less ..

[rocket757]

Not probable anymore, just obvious!
Another eye opened and he saw the obvious.

[cniza]

Apparently he understands that he will soon go into the distance and decided to reflect ...

[cniza]

In Major's view, the current great powers are the United States of America, China and the European Union.

Since when has E.S. became a great power? Great bureaucracy, yes, but so ...

[rocket757]

So big, yes ... but somehow she now does not play amicably when neighbors are in trouble.

[cniza]

Itself already breathes on incense ...

[rocket757]

In general, then on the drum, yourself, yourself.
As before, everything will no longer be, but how it will be, I don’t want to guess.

[cniza]

Everything in the world is very interconnected and only we can provide and support ourselves, that's why we are hit like this ...

[rocket757]

We are not alone, self-sufficient .... just on the teeth of a dinosaur! At once we can shorten the grab, which is to our wealth, someone decides to stretch!

[cniza]

So they understand this, but from time to time they forget ...

[rocket757]

They make you forget the man in the street, the herd, which is then led to slaughter.

[APASUS]

How do they leave their chairs and so quickly become adequate, what are they given there? What would carry all this blizzard, maybe they are pricked with something, and then after the resignation, the effect of drugs ends and opa - he saw the light!

[Andobor]

Yes, all the fry pissed away, but the same Great Power was.

[aszzz888]

Andobor
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Yes, all the fry pissed away, but the same Great Power was.

The time of the corsairs is over. Awl against the wall!

[Gene84]

Quote: Andobor

the same Great Power was.

There were many such powers in world history ... Of some, only the names in the history textbook remained ...

[sergo1914]

We are no longer a great power. We will never be her again.

Dude, calm down. In Irish whiskey, you are the best in the world. The rest may just not be yours.

[aszzz888]

Great Britain is no longer a great world power.

"Well, everything, chicks, basta, they have crowed ..."

[Incvizitor]

Is he just now awake? It is not for nothing that all small British people call it the same.

[Alexander Dubinin]

Where did the shoulder straps come from?

[Lynx2000]

Oh how ?! The ex said that Russia is not a world power, so it is ...
And Bokassa in the 70s declared himself emperor and announced the creation of the Central African Empire.
The whole world shuddered at this?

I thought that the criteria for determining the status of a world power are extensive, and depend on many factors:
- the status of a UN member state;
- participation in international negotiation processes;
- international economic processes;
- the state of the national armed forces and the presence of nuclear weapons;
- etc. ...

[Snusmumrik]

Perhaps right now Britain has a "knight's move"? To improve relations with Russia?

[faiver]

God forbid about this ...

[faiver]

UK National Health Service (NHS) employees dressed in recycled plastic trash bags to protect against coronavirus

- the state is not the same ...

[Growlers]

Since 1945, England has been a colony of the United States. Churchill sold with giblets .. they were just beginning to reach

[boris epstein]

"In second place are the lesser powers, such as Russia and Turkey, leading to interference in the affairs of other states and subversive activities."
In conducting subversive activities, Britain is second only to the United States (and is it?). If the United States does it by force, insolently and almost openly, then Britain is trying to crap on the sly. The experience and qualifications of British intelligence are higher than American ones and British intelligence works thinner.
"In a world of almost eight billion people, there are less than one percent of Britons."
It has always been that way. Britain, by military force and the church cross, recorded the population of the colonies in the British. But after the Second World War it became clear that most of them did not want to be British. And then the Scots with their referendum ... Yes, violations in the voting for the time of Britain managed to hush it up.

[Gene84]

Former British Prime Minister: Our country is no longer a great power

They understood too late. Britain is currently running errands for the United States.

[RSAbum2004]

All the ephemerality of this event proves the fact that democracy as an event was organized anarchy within the state and nothing else: neither education (where it rests only on the name of the institution, nor health care (where the oath, by definition, has no meaning), where the limit of existence lies between "must" and "done", where the principle of ethical morality ends with the phrase "It's just business ..." - enough of their own ...

[Growlers]

Britain has long been a US colony. They just noticed it ...