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{{quote|''We are with Europe but not of it. We are linked but not combined. We are interested and associated but not absorbed.''|[[Winston Churchill]]}}
{{quote|FOG IN CHANNEL; CONTINENT CUT OFF|[[Beam Me Up, Scotty|Probably apocryphal British newspaper headline]]}}
{{quote|At the moment, Britain isn't even ''in'' the European car. We're outside the car at the traffic light going, "we're going to clean your windows, alright?"|[[Eddie Izzard]], ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}dd5x3zp1QL0 Dress to Kill]''}}
The UK's rather odd relationship with the rest of Europe and the rest of the world. Not to be confused to the similar, though fiercely independent approach of Switzerland.
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Modern relations with Spain are fairly pleasant. Like with France, many Brits will have holiday homes in the country and enjoy the culture. In fact, it is common to see characters in British television talk of clubbing in Ibiza or [[London Gangster|big bad crime lords]] going to Spain to disappear for a while (although there is now an extradition treaty with Spain, it is not retroactive).
There is of course, [[
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