“We have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked but not combined. We are interested and associated but not absorbed. If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.” (Naturally europhiles criticise and hate the use of this quote - to the point of trying desperately to deny it was ever made.)
BUT they cannot make any inroads into what he said below!
Furthermore, Churchill made it very clear in his 6th September 1943 Harvard speech that if any close union should ever be made - it would have been with the US with whom we share 'a common tongue.'
