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    English, Sid. I don't live in Europe, that's a continent 20-odd miles from my house. Near enough for me to take an interest in and speak two of the languages (to varying degrees of intelligibility!), near enough for me to pay frequent visits to and near enough for me to appreciate the culture, but not my home. In exactly the same way as Jacques from Calais lives close enough to England to appreciate the same virtues in my homeland as I do his, but France is still his home.

    I sing 'God Save The Queen', he sings 'La Marseillaise'. We are not brother Europeans and never will be, despite what Brussels may decree. Any pretence that we are all one big happy Euro family is nonsense - witness how willing the Germans and French are to help out Greece, which is deep in the soft and smelly. If we want to be a member of some huge trade organisation that could challenge the might of the American and Australasian economies, that's a different kettle of fish to being part of a federal superstate with our sovereignty handed over to Brussels.

    I don't mind being called 'British' - after all, I live in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but European? No thank you very much.

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