Originally Posted by
ZZ Jack
To hear some people speak, they seem to believe that Europe was a nineteen fifties invention, and no one ever went there before the common market became the EU. On June 6 1944 several hundred thousand men, without visas, crossed the English channel, and many of them gave their lives to free Europe from a totalitarian regime. The British have just used that freedom to do our bit against another totalitarian, unelected elite, fortunately this time by the ballot box not the gun.