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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]''}}
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British television can be picked up in Ireland, although few RTE programmes have come our way.
'''[[Cheese
The English have fought at least 20 wars against the French since the Norman Conquest. Before the Germans started seriously arming in the lead-up to [[World War One]], the enemy in "invasion fiction" was the French. The earlier attempts to build a Channel Tunnel failed because of fears of the French.
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The relationship can occasionally be strained, particularly when an American utters the [[Stock Phrase]] "We saved your asses in World War Two" (the civil response is usually something along the lines of "When you ''finally'' got round to it..."). It's not as hostile as Hollywood would like you to believe, though; it's not like the UK's still fighting the Revolution against the traitors.
The United Kingdom was, and still is, a valuable power projection place for the United States, considering it "an unsinkable aircraft carrier" (''The Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier'' was the name of a 1984 investigative work into US bases in the UK). This is probably the reason why Britain is called Airstrip One in ''[[Nineteen Eighty
They also share ''another'' unsinkable aircraft carrier, Diego Garcia, in the British Indian Ocean Territory.
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