‘We have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked but not combined. We are interested and associated but not absorbed.’
WS Churchill, 1930
So much for ‘ever closer union’, the key principle of the EU when it was founded in 1957, as it is still today.
‘For get this quite clear, every time we have to decide between Europe and the open sea, it is always the open sea we shall choose.’
WS Churchill, 1944
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