Technically, the UK is part of Europe. Socially, politically, financially, the UK is not really part of Europe. Many of these things that are released in Europe aren't released in the UK, and vice versa.
The UK is part of Europe in name only. Noone really considers the UK part of Europe, we're not on the Euro, we speak the dreaded English, and we are on our own island.
@ Mindboggle: What? I'm English and consider myself European. You do know that the UK is part of the European Union regardless of whether it uses the European Single Currency or not? That's without explaining the obvious geographic evidence. Go read some books numnuts.
What the hell are you on about "we speak the dreaded English" because the rest of Europe speaks some Euro language?
The UK has been part of the common European market since the 60's (before the EU) and much of our legal system is aligned with the European community. We also incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights which is completely separate from the EU but further shows that the UK does consider itself part of Europe. As far as us not using the Euro only 16 of the 27 EU countries are part use the single currency and as far as us not being on the same land mass that’s like saying Japan is not in Asia!
Lucky for the rest of us that ignorant people like you who don’t understand how laws and economics work and just focus on Daily Mail politics never come to power.
im also english and also always thought of myself as european....
i must admit though uk is more like a us subcontinent when it comes to politics and entertainment. always pisses me off how we get the history of america and us news on radio 4. i mean , sure, important news events are fine , but wtf do i care about us senator sotamayooor.
it could be worse, you could have won the war and then our crap would be on all your channels. plus, i would take 1 foreign news channel over the 20 QVC channels we have here in the states.
The first thing I struggled over too!! Just because a few selected countries haven't adopted the Euro (UK, Sweden, Denmark etc) doesn't mean they're not a part of Europe (or the European Union for that matter)
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Isnt UK part of Europe? I dont think my geography lessons from high school are that antiquated.
Technically, the UK is part of Europe. Socially, politically, financially, the UK is not really part of Europe. Many of these things that are released in Europe aren't released in the UK, and vice versa.
The UK is part of Europe in name only. Noone really considers the UK part of Europe, we're not on the Euro, we speak the dreaded English, and we are on our own island.
@ Mindboggle: What? I'm English and consider myself European. You do know that the UK is part of the European Union regardless of whether it uses the European Single Currency or not? That's without explaining the obvious geographic evidence. Go read some books numnuts.
What the hell are you on about "we speak the dreaded English" because the rest of Europe speaks some Euro language?
The UK has been part of the common European market since the 60's (before the EU) and much of our legal system is aligned with the European community. We also incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights which is completely separate from the EU but further shows that the UK does consider itself part of Europe. As far as us not using the Euro only 16 of the 27 EU countries are part use the single currency and as far as us not being on the same land mass that’s like saying Japan is not in Asia!
Lucky for the rest of us that ignorant people like you who don’t understand how laws and economics work and just focus on Daily Mail politics never come to power.
im also english and also always thought of myself as european....
i must admit though uk is more like a us subcontinent when it comes to politics and entertainment. always pisses me off how we get the history of america and us news on radio 4. i mean , sure, important news events are fine , but wtf do i care about us senator sotamayooor.
i'm european and i consider the UK as a part of europe. and so does everybody else, stop trying to be something special because you're not
it could be worse, you could have won the war and then our crap would be on all your channels. plus, i would take 1 foreign news channel over the 20 QVC channels we have here in the states.
that was to sinjinn. sorry :-\
The first thing I struggled over too!! Just because a few selected countries haven't adopted the Euro (UK, Sweden, Denmark etc) doesn't mean they're not a part of Europe (or the European Union for that matter)
It is really odd to say and wrong..
Of course the UK is a part of Europe, and I have never thought of it as anything else.
Lol. It's nice to see the Europeans getting just as worked over the internets as us excitable Americans.
*worked up