Gosport Whetherspoons should be very careful about ostracising their bread and butter customers. Its not going to be the LGBTQAI for Palestine brigade that keep you going after the budget.

No we bloody haven’t. 😂 We have always been IN Europe, in the same way that your house can be in a street containing people you’ve spent thirty years arguing with about the hedge. Our actual relationship with continental Europe for the best part of a thousand years has been less “European family” and more an extremely long-running episode of Brookside - except occasionally somebody invades someone. 1066, the Normans conquered England. Then we spent centuries fighting the French over which bits of France were actually ours. The Hundred Years’ War began in 1337, during which Edward III invaded France, claimed the French throne and, at one point, controlled more than a quarter of France. Crécy, Poitiers, Agincourt... it was not Erasmus. Then Spain decided it fancied invading us, sent the Armada in 1588 and we set fire to bits of it. Then we fought the Dutch. Then the French again. Then the French again. Then, for variety, the French again. Between 1689 and 1714 alone, England/Britain spent nearly twenty of twenty-five years at war with France. Parliament actually developed new taxes partly because continually fighting the French was becoming bloody expensive. Then Napoleon turned up, so we spent another twenty-odd years fighting France and finally helped defeat him at Waterloo in 1815. We have fought The Romans, Spain, France, the Dutch Republic, various German states, Austria, Italy and assorted European coalitions, sometimes against them, sometimes alongside them, and occasionally changing sides because European history is basically one enormous family wedding where everyone eventually punches an uncle. Then came two World Wars in which Britain fought with some Europeans against other Europeans, which rather demonstrates the obvious point that “Europe” has never been a single political people. We are British. We didn’t leave Europe, we left a political union.

He broke script. She panicked. They all panic.