it is IMO relevant to consider this when i ask myself what Britain's place should be within federal EU, an argument i frame under the following questions
Yes but then you take your personal views and call them british as though you represent the mythical typical Brit.
That steroetyping is no more relevant than someone saying a typical Brit is the loud rude and obnoxious sunburnt drunken puke monster who they have seen lots of in european resorts.