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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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