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Brexit: Britain never was - and never will be - a European country

Brexit: Britain never was - and never will be - a European country
17 Dec, 2020 09:03 PM
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Brexit proves that, even in the 1970s, it was too late to alter the global orientation of the UK. Photo / AP
Daily Telegraph UK
By: Robert Tombs
Britain is a European nation, Remainers still often say when calling for the closest possible relationship with the EU after Brexit. I m never sure what they think this means. And do our Continental neighbours agree?
It is hard, perhaps impossible, really to feel the subconscious characteristics that stem from geography, history and culture.
Certainly, we lucky islanders have rarely had existential worries about our identity or our borders. But France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Hungary – to mention only the biggest – have experienced border disputes or territorial changes even within living memory. You can fight over these things, or you can try to transcend them. So thought Eur ....

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Great Britain never was – and never will be – a European country

Great Britain never was – and never will be – a European country
Brexit proves that, even in the 1970s, it was too late to alter the global orientation of our small island nation
16 December 2020 • 9:30pm
“Britain is a European nation,” Remainers still often say when calling for the closest possible relationship with the EU after Brexit. I’m never sure what they think this means. And do our Continental neighbours agree? It is hard, perhaps impossible, really to feel the subconscious characteristics that stem from geography, history and culture. Certainly, we lucky islanders have rarely had existential worries about our “identity” or our borders. But France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Hungary – to mention only the biggest – have experienced border disputes or territorial changes even within living memory. You can fight over these things, or you can try to transcend them. So thought Europeanism’s founding fathers, who included men from borderlands want ....

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