Happy Europe Day, Everyone!

[Flosshilde]

I think Scotland isn't - it floated over from America & bumped into England.

[Beef Oven]

I think Scotland isn't - it floated over from America & bumped into England.

You make it sound like a Richard. The Scottish people won't be pleased.

[scottycelt]

Canada's part of Europe too. (Iceland part of Europe..... I ask ya!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Iceland_to_the_European_Union

I'm sure Canada's welcome to apply ...

[Beef Oven]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessi...European_Union

I'm sure Canada's welcome to apply ...

What next? Israel in the Eurovision song contest? Or maybe Turkey? Come off it!

[scottycelt]

I think Scotland isn't - it floated over from America & bumped into England.

And never recovered ...

[Mr Pee]

They can hardly be British, as most of them weren't born in Britain

Blimey, Flossie, have you been reading the Daily Mail recently? Denying that people can be British citizens simply because they were born in another country seems to go rather against your usual wooly left wing viewpoint. What about all those immigrants to the UK who have taken out British citizenship? Are they therefore not really British?

I always suspected you were a closet right-winger. Perhaps we have a lot in common after all.

[teamsaint]

Welsh Rarebit is very British! Had it myself this morning for breakfast!

Sally Lunn's Welsh Rarebit in Bath used to be worth making a trip for.
(think I have missed the main point of this thread, but always happy to voice an opinion !!)

[scottycelt]

What next? Israel in the Eurovision song contest? Or maybe Turkey? Come off it!

Yes, proven winners that's what we need ... are you a closet Cliff Richard fan or something, for goodness sake?

[Beef Oven]

Yes, proven winners that's what we need ... are you a closet Cliff Richard fan or something, for goodness sake?

Congratulations! I am, I came out years ago though!

[scottycelt]

Don't get at me mate, I've always called it Welsh Rabbit. I was using the term that was used in the original post - I was afraid, you get killed in here if you get something wrong!

Oh come, come, I'm sure this is something about which all the peoples of Europe can unite, even Mr Pee ...

I, too, have always referred to the delicacy as Welsh Rabbit, as rarebits from the Principality I've invariably found to be few and far between.

[ahinton]

Welsh Rarebit Scottish style - no tomato, battered and deep-fried!

...and washed down with some fine malt? What can I possibly say about this gastronomic - er - something-or-other on behalf of Scotland? Ah, yes, I know. YUCK!!

[ahinton]

Isn't the IoM part of the European land mass, lying, as it does, between England & Ireland?

Well, yes and no. England (and, by geographical association, Wales and Scotland) is now umbilically atached to "mainland" Europe by means of the channel tunnel, as I mentioned earlier, but the Isla of Man really its still and island, so it isn't (and more, of couse, than is Ireland); IOM is, therefore, a part of Europe geographically but not physically attached to its mainland by means of any kind of land link and, unlike Ireland, it's not part of EU either. That's the only reason that I mentioned it in the context of Mr Pee.

[ahinton]

I think Scotland isn't - it floated over from America & bumped into England.

I'll pretend that I didn't read that; shouldn't be too difficult, methinks...

[ahinton]

What next? Israel in the Eurovision song contest? Or maybe Turkey? Come off it!

Each of those is far more likely than Canada; aftger all, they're both geographically part of Europe, as are Morocco (amazing border, that Sahara), Afghanistan, Belarus and Kyrgysztan (and others, of course), although only one of those four has yet formally indicated its wish to join EU.

[ahinton]

Blimey, Flossie, have you been reading the Daily Mail recently? Denying that people can be British citizens simply because they were born in another country seems to go rather against your usual wooly left wing viewpoint. What about all those immigrants to the UK who have taken out British citizenship? Are they therefore not really British?

I always suspected you were a closet right-winger. Perhaps we have a lot in common after all.

As I've stated before on more than one occasion, if even a mere 10% of those people who have a right of abode in Britain (i.e. everyone with a British passport declaring their right of abode there) who doesn't currently live in Britain decided to move there pronto, there'd be a massive problem; if they all did, Britain would likely be plunged immediately into a considerably worse economic state than Greece currently suffers. British citizens are such if their passports say that they are (except in the cases of forged passports bering such declarations), regardless of their places of birth and I'm not even including here those people whom you're talking about as having moved to UK as non-British citizens and who have successfully taken out British citizenship since doing so.