Originally Posted by
rubah
For some reason, sometimes Brits like to think that they are not a part of The Continent, and thus not quite as European.
Like to point out this...
The United Kingdom and Ireland are strangely enough Islands. A single cross ocean undersea rail connection which could with the right determination be severed by even a terrorist attack does not make us a part of a continent. Continents are by definition a single land mass wherein several countries/states may be contained. Europe is a continent but it does not include the British Isles. The fact that the components of the British Isles are a part of the European Union does not automatically mean the continent has extended and that Dover is directly connected to northern France. Pangea did not mystically reform there. We have for the most part refused the single European currency and will do so for many more years to come as far as I can see. We've refused more intergration with the EU and even today a major political rift in the democracy of the UK is our ties to the EU and their influence over everything in our country when well in excess of 60% of Britons feel that we are not a part of Europe but an independant nation.
Therefore not letting the EU win is a majorly important thing for most people in the UK.
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