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[Idaho]

Mate I want some of what you are smoking.

Stating that Britain is a European country amounts to genocide now? I'm sorry, but this is bizarre.

Welcome to the sad and confused mental world of the English Tory

[Louis VI the Fat]

Welcome to the sad and confused mental world of the English Tory

An endless source of wonder.

If there is one upshot about the current wave of nationalist hysteria sweeping over Europe, it is that the quality of the internets goes up. No need to go through all the hassle of finding nationallistically inclined Poles or Balkanians. Western Europe will suffice.

[Furunculus]

An endless source of wonder.

If there is one upshot about the current wave of nationalist hysteria sweeping over Europe, it is that the quality of the internets goes up. No need to go through all the hassle of finding nationallistically inclined Poles or Balkanians. Western Europe will suffice.

as i said to PVC:

The difference is between the promolugation of a "European identity" and acceptence that the various peoples of Europe share a history, they are not the same thing.

correct, that latter falls quite ordinarily within the realm of geographical european'ess.

a european socio/cultural identity is something you as an individual accept and adopt, and is something that can be said to exist at a national level if a significant proportion of the populace likewise accepts and adopts.

the Belgians are european in the manner Louis describes, the British are not.

i would like to see Idaho explain how this view is the confused mental world of an English* Tory........................?

* read: British

you're the second person to express that sentiment, and seeing as Idaho hasn't replied yet perhaps you would do us the honour of explaining the nature of the confusion of the British Tory...........?

[Sarmatian]

An endless source of wonder.

If there is one upshot about the current wave of nationalist hysteria sweeping over Europe, it is that the quality of the internets goes up. No need to go through all the hassle of finding nationallistically inclined Poles or Balkanians. Western Europe will suffice.

Talk about irony, nationalism in the Balkans is quietly disappearing and in the western Europe is on the rise... Just call when you need peacekeepers...

I, for one, accept that Britain is not in Europe. They didn't trade with Europe, they weren't involved in any wars in Europe, they didn't have any contact with other European cultures, they're not a member of any European organization and they don't compete in European Football Championship.

[Tellos Athenaios]

they don't compete in European Football Championship.

This much is true: they've been no contender for a while now.