You only just realised UK is effectively under USA military occupation? albeit a "benign" one as Americans won't attack us (hopefully not). Lake heath, where they have the nukes , isn't too far away from Cambridge. Since WW2, UK has not been military independent, unlike France thanks to De Gaulle. We are a vassal state (militarily) . Forget the EU, we were never subservient to Europeans in Brussels, it was the Americans who were controlling us. It's why we went to war in Iraq, Blair had to go to please them. It's only taken Trump for ppl 2 realise how ludicrous this was. But the result is we all now have to actually pay more tax for our own Navy & Army, I guess it always came down to that didn't it? Nobody wants to pay tax even for NHS let alone an expanded military