[BITList] EU - Postscript

[HUGH]

Colin,

I read John's posting of the Daily Express article on the EU after sending my last for your attention.

Inter alia, it says :

"Taking Britain out of the EU should not be seen as a move to ' Little Englandism.' On the contrary, ours is a great trading nation with markets all over the world."  I forbore to mention Little Englandism, and Britain is not a nation.
.........

"But Britain is a land apart:  A precious stone set in the silver sea, as Shakespeare so evocatively put it; a realm with a glorious island story stretching back a thousand years, with links to every continent and a language taken up throughout the world." Michty me, what utter bloody tripe !  They have misquoted Shakespeare - he thought England was an island.

And he's not the only one.  A current US website has the following gem (no pun intended), "Let's begin with the allegedly Anglo origins in the mists of Tudor myth, the defeat of the Spanish Armada and faith in the Royal Navy's ' wooden walls.'  On this telling, England was (and remains) an island apart from Europe, ' a precious stone set in a silver sea,' as Shakespeare had it."  God help us all, as Oliver Twist probably said.

http://www.aei.org/article/100998 

Hugh.
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