Especially from the US point of view (cost).

But considering the state of your economy, so many who view these forums decrying the amount of austerity you now impose upon yourselves, really willing to devote huge amounts more to your own defense? (in place of the US picking up part of the tab).

I assure you, plenty of people over here would prefer that we weren't picking up the tab for you. There is little concern that a Britain more fully independent would be doing too much that we really didn't like, so why should we be paying for it? (I am just explaining a commonly held opinion).

In other words, there are people HERE you could work with toward your stated goal of a fully independent Britain.

I'm not sure these regular 'demos' can be justified any more. We know how these US bases work. We have as many pics of them as they have of us. If we need to take them down we can and I'm sure they imagine the same.

I think we should be concentrating on removing any threats to our Greek sisters and brothers as soon as...