This French Gadgie May Just Have Had A Point

Il dit "Non"

This is what that well-known anglophile General de Gaulle had to say about us in 1963 when rebuffing our first attempts to join what was then the European Economic Community:
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England in effect is insular, she is maritime, she is linked through her interactions, her markets and her supply lines to the most diverse and often distant countries; she pursues essentially industrial and commercial activities, and only slight agricultural ones. She has in all her doings, very marked and very original habits and traditions.

He had a point you know. Only saying.