Monday 23 November 2009

No, I think you mean Switzerland.

From The Metro: UK must be at heart of Europe - PM.

As an aside, I note that the petition demanding that politicians say "European Union" when they mean "European Union" and "Europe" when they mean "Europe" is not going too well ...

11 comments:

banned said...

"Mr Brown said he was spearheading demands for a Europe-wide economic growth strategy."
That will have our European friends quaking in their boots.

" La Effecte Jonah , none ? "

dearieme said...

Mind you, it would help if you silly Englishes would stop saying "Europe" when you mean the Continent.

Witterings from Witney said...

dearmie,

On the basis the EU are a pile of sh**s, perhaps that should be inContinent?

Mark Wadsworth said...

B, yup. That's them f***ed.

D, I could split hairs and ask "which Continent"?

Witterings from Witney said...

Oops, apols to dearieme - inadvertently tried to re-name.

banned said...

As was said at the time " Severe fog in the English Channel, Continent cut off ".

Nuff said.

James Higham said...

Let's give an award to the most pointless petition.

Mark Wadsworth said...

Banned, I think that was before they invented things like radar and the Channel Tunnel.

JH, the petition might be futile (as they just about all are) but it's an important point nonetheless.

The Hickory Wind said...

The European Court of Human Rights is not an EU organization. It was created by the Council of Europe.

Mark Wadsworth said...

CI, indeedy. They should have checked with the experts before submitting the exact wording!

bayard said...

Nobody loves a pedant (I should know, being one). The problem with Europe, the geographical entity, is that it is not flexible enough. It can't be stretched to include Turkey (certainly not Israel!), or shrunk to exclude Russia. Much better to morph "Europe" into a political term that can be made to mean whatever is politically expedient.