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Originally Posted by richard s
Trouble with our island mentality is that some people think and believe that we still have an Empire or that we are a super power. I am a pro-European and believe that unity is strength and to keep the other three super powers in check. What we should have done was to be running the EU with the French and Germans in the first place instead of sitting on the fence like we seem to do all the time on different matters/scenarios.
Hey ho... down the pan we will all go... don't look back in anger I heard them all say.
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To be fair, that was purely due to DeGaulle and his "non".
Yet once we were in, the UK was one of the main drivers of the ECHR.