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by zozbot123 2696 days ago
> Britons are Europeans!

They don't want to be Europeans anymore, though - and they voted to that effect.

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Wanting to leave the EU is one thing but relocating the entire archipelago to a different continental plate would be a tall order indeed.
But Brexit does mean Brexit... /s
They can't stop being European - because Britain is in Europe.

It's a bit like saying Japan doesn't want to be Asian.

Try being a white New Zealander. You technically don't class as European but sort of get described as being of European descent and then on a technicality you are from an island in the Pacific Ocean so you could claim you are a Pacific Islander only that's not what a Pacific Islander is as they are all brown and from Fiji, Samoa, Tonga etc.

So I dunno... sometimes categorization is complicated.

We just refer to the lot of us as Kiwis after the small and the flightless native bird. What the hell does that have to do with anything I don't know.

Europe =/= the European Union.
A few years ago 1 in 4 Brits votes to leave the European Union for a variety of reasons. That view has now changed.