"David Thornley" wrote in message
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In article , Spiv
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Depends on its ability to support people and feed them from the land.
The
UK can do that with no problems - 60 million of them.

Quote from the 2004 World Almanac, p. 848:

Britain imports all of its cotton, rubber, sulphur, about 80% of
its wool, half of its *food* and iron ore....

It can feed the people, the UK is highly fertile. We pay farmers not to
produce. Any food imported is because it is cheap, trade agreements, or we
just can't grow that food in our climate. When it comes to it, the land can
feed the people. It did in WW2. All land was turned over to food
production.

Not to mention that this had absolutely nothing to do with size in
any sense meaningful to transportation.

Who said transportation. 175 years ago it took days to go from one part of
England to another by stage coach. They all thought it was very big. You
think of the size of a country by plane times.