Fnurr, fnurr, Phil - well done for finding another cynical poster.
Between you and JJ (who is just as happy to interpret a video clip of Merkel the way Farage
wants him to - and who cannot for the life of him think of any alternative meaning

), you sum up what I do consider to be the pathetic side of British people.
Insular (Wha's like us!). Ungrateful. Whining.
If you
truly believe what that poster infers, then I honestly think you are a pitiful person.
Enjoy your dream of standing at Dover shaking your fist over the water. Enjoy your little England.
Britain has no spine? Britain doesn't count?
Tell that to the Balkans. Tell it to Sierra Leone. Tell it to the Ukraine. Tell it to the Middle East.
We
should also have told that to Syria, but too many MPs lost their nerve.
Wherever there is a major decision to be made about the security of this planet, Britain is at the top table.
(Cue howls of cynicism...)
But, yes we are.
Phil, I look forward to your future posts on paving and the missing 'lady', but we are poles apart for what we want for our country.
I know I'm not going to change your mind (as you say yourself, the more we argue the more you're resolved to your opinion...)
But I don't want any part of your cynical and would-be broken-up Great Britain. Where people b**** about immigrants and the money they supposedly send back 'home' to their kids (compare the average 'immigrant' to the average indigenous Brit...). I'd rather have a Syrian refuge living beside me than many on this thread - bright, hard working, grateful, ready to make a difference.
We have an ethical and moral duty to be part of a closer and bigger world. It's because we are human beings.