112
UK should consider expelling US forces from British bases, says Zack Polanski
(www.theguardian.com)
we should keep their jets tho, give em to denmark.
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
112 points (98.3% liked)
UK Politics
4637 readers
177 users here now
General Discussion for politics in the UK.
Please don't post to both !uk_politics@feddit.uk and !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk .
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.
Posts should be related to UK-centric politics, and should be either a link to a reputable news source for news, or a text post on this community.
Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.
If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread. (These things should be publicly discussed)
Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.
Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Agree, but giving up nuclear weapons is stupid, we need them as a deterrent against the USA.
Kinda annoying that our nuclear weapons are partly controlled by the USA and it's probably not possible to use them against the USA 😬
Well, it is. Sort of. We know this because periodically the navy takes a trident without a warhead and fires it from a submarine. One recent test was a partial success. The RN components all worked. Unfortunately the Lockheed guidance system failed and the missile turned around and headed for Florida.
They are made in the USA so it's going to be hard to go of them cold turkey. But next time the contract swings around we need to look at the french model.
The nuclear warheads are actually made in Berkshire. The 'delivery systems' i.e missiles they are mounted on and the surrounding tech often comes from the states and gets sent back there for refurbishment and testing every few years. The UK could do a lot of damage with what it already has in stock before needing to get more. I agree that the US should be cut out of all important supply chains though.
You could always deliver them by train or something.
Brean Down has you covered
No very reliable, Replacement bus service will get it there.
Right now, having the U.S. military bases on GB soil is like inviting a felon-pedo rapist into our homes.
Oh wait........
Reliance on the US is clearly unsustainable, but how quickly we can actually disentangle ourselves is a difficult question to answer. If I were a NATO power I'd be quietly trying to fully reverse-engineer any US tech we can't get from elsewhere so that I could start replacing it, to make that transition less painful.
The problem is that such a transition is going to be very expensive, for little tangible benefit. You can't tell when your military deterred a foreign power from invading simply by being sufficiently scary. But maintaining that power and independence from US influence on policy is paramount. Trump wants to do exactly what Putin is doing in Ukraine (and already did in Georgia and elsewhere): dominate smaller countries, dictate their policies to them, and if they don't kowtow, punish them.
Let them stay until an attack on Greenland happens, then arrest them.
Please, the UK is the 51st state. Welcome into trumps nuclear arms!