David Cameron's Europe Speech

[scottycelt]

Where did you get that map? They can't even spell "Edinburgh".

... it must be American.

[Beef Oven]

No that's Everest, much further to the east of our huge continent of Eurasia.
But further to your point, Israel regards itself as European when it suits them; e.g. The Eurovision Song Contest.

I meant highest mountain in the EU. Spare a thought for Israel, it has to be in the Champions' League and the Eurovisions - it can hardly participate in competitions in its own region/continent, can it?

[handsomefortune]

viewed best with audio down round about 50 seconds, nigel starts to really shows us what he's made of! hollow aluminium? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2vuWkOerAc unfortunately, despite everything, he doesn't expose any rings either, (he just wanted to take the opportunity to draw attention to himself)? ...

[Beef Oven]

viewed best with audio down round about 50 seconds, nigel starts to really shows us what he's made of! hollow aluminium? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2vuWkOerAc unfortunately, despite everything, he doesn't expose any rings either, (he just wanted to take the opportunity to draw attention to himself)? ...

This is better http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqovTGjYjM4

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

... it must be American.

No; if it were, America would be in the middle, with Eurasia divided into two.

[scottycelt]

Europe doesn't exist, though the EU clearly does.
I've bored people to death for many years challenging the convention than Europe is a continent, which it clearly is not - merely the western bit of Asia.
It seems that the Bosporus is responsible, having been close to where the earliest reasonable world maps were made. That was where the division between the continents was first made, but the Black Sea is really quote small, so later the artificial boundary between the so-called continents was drawn through the Caspian Sea and any mountain ranges that could be found - the Urals and the Caucasus. So imprecise is this arrangement that no-one is really sure whether Mont Blanc or Mt.
Elbrus is the highest mountain in the "continent" of Europe.

Yes, you make a valid point.

Maybe Europe is only really a sub-continent and therefore has more in common with India?

And therefore the UK has maybe much more in common with New Zealand as the Daily Express has always insisted?

Lord Beaverbrook I salute you posthumously, Sir!

[MrGongGong]

Skye isn't part of Scotland
And by the same logic Canvey Island isn't in England
Etc etc

[amateur51]

This is better http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqovTGjYjM4

I heard Nigel Farage saying last week that he thought that this performance was a bit over the top

[Beef Oven]

Skye isn't part of Scotland
And by the same logic Canvey Island isn't in England
Etc etc

Yeah! Dr Feelgood - woooahh!!

[Beef Oven]

I heard Nigel Farage saying last week that he thought that this performance was a bit over the top

Name-dropper

[teamsaint]

Yeah! Dr Feelgood - woooahh!!

They did it right.
I see Wilko is going out all guns blazing.....

[Beef Oven]

I see Wilko is going out all guns blazing.....

I haven't kept up......What's Wilko blazing at?

[teamsaint]

I haven't kept up......What's Wilko blazing at?

he is in very poor health. Gigging hard though.....

[Beef Oven]

he is in very poor health. Gigging hard though.....

Sad, that got Pavarotti and my grandfather

[scottycelt]

I heard Nigel Farage saying last week that he thought that this performance was a bit over the top

I thought it was hilarious, like something out of a parliamentary Fawlty Towers ...

Surely we can all indulge ranting, frothing-at-the mouth political clowns just for a bit?

After all he's only the Right's answer to Denis Skinner, and it hardly comes as any great surprise that both these political clowns are united on the issue of Europe, as well as just ranting and frothing-at-the-mouth.

Let's make occasional room for these relatively harmless political clowns ... nothing wrong with a bit of raucous parliamentary entertainment now and again?