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Article: Oh, what a lovely war!
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 23, 1996
- Author:
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There they go, there they go, there they go . . . Over the
Channel, and through the tunnel, pour the massed battalions of the
British Euro- sceptic Expeditionary Force (BEEF). Over the coming
weeks, they will fight them in the committee rooms, in the council
chambers, in the summits, in the newspaper columns. If the beef ban
should last for a thousand years, they will never surrender. If
they're forced into another Dunkirk withdrawal from Europe, they
would not care.
But hold on a moment, the derided Euro-pacifist cries: is not
this a very silly war?
For Britain is fighting, in effect, on the side of
Euro-federalism and Big Brother Europe against legitimate national
anxieties. We are ...