davehill wrote:
What a lot of sad and insular xenophobes you are! Maybe the result of having never been out of your little villages.
The British Isles are part of Europe, just as Japan and Sri Lanka (for the fossils amongst you it used to be called Ceylon) are part of Asia. And just as Canada is classified as part of North America.
Being a European doesn't mean that you are not British, English, Scots, Irish, Welsh,Cornish or anything else - it's a geographical region not a nationality.
Your attitudes are just the sorts that caused Britain, the English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Cornish to be despised during the days of "the Empire". The belief that Britain was somehow superior and above all those bloody foreigners made us hated around the world. Everyone wanted to have their independence from us. We became alienated because of the "Alf Garnett" type bigotry that you idiots are now expressing.
Of course you are European, because that's where you come from/live on the surface of the planet. And it's great to have pride in your localism, County or Country, and the two go together.
If you persist with your attitudes you will become endangered species, and probably find yourselves placed in a zoo.
Maybe the best thing.
What a lot of sad and insular xenophobes you are! ... (
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What a load of XXXX. I have travelled throughout Europe and the Middle East.
It should be apparent to you that WE were disliked because we were successful, (at a huge cost to our own, I might add.). The Scots were not disliked in France (for example). Treaties were signed, (frequently in our names, but not with our consent - The E.E.C. for example).