I Never Considered Britain to be Part of Europe - Since the Time of the Tudors, I don't believe the Brits did either.

A European Britain seems to have been shoehorned in during the Cold War. m/r

Brexit Vote Gives Tabloids Chance to Unleash Anti-European Tendencies

by STEPHEN CASTLE  JUNE 9, 2016

LONDON — Britons could lose control of their coastline. Their country could be scrapped or merged with France. And a nation in which tea-making is a daily ritual faces the prospect of a ban on its kettles.

Over recent years The Daily Express, a newspaper with a print circulation of around 400,000, and its sibling, the Sunday Express, have made little secret of their antipathy to the European Union, presenting it as the source of a variety of such unlikely assaults on Britain and all things British.

But with a June 23 referendum looming on whether Britain should stay in the 28-nation bloc, The Express has moved up another gear, urging readers to display a window sticker in favor of quitting, or — in the paper’s words — to “STICK IT TO THE EU!”

Britain’s freewheeling tabloid press has never been shy about pushing an agenda. But the debate on withdrawal from the European Union — known as Brexit — has given some papers a particular opportunity to unleash their nationalist and anti-European tendencies. 

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