British Nationalists please note ....

10 uncomfortable facts for the British Nationalists so strongly in favour of separating from Europe:

1: Our aristocrats are descended from the Norman invaders (French) and our Monarchy is German.

2: Leading British businesses like Marks & Spencer, Waitrose, Sainsbury’s and Tesco were started by European Jews fleeing persecution.

3: The Bank of England was set up on the model of the Bank of Holland, and its first governor was Sir John Houblon, a Dutchman.

4: The Church of England is based on the ideas of Martin Luther (German) and John Calvin (French).

5: Our patron saint, Saint George, was actually a Turkish knight who never came to England.

6: The quintessentially English Sunday Roast is a Roman invention.

7: Suits from Savile Row, the epitome of English luxury, are based on tailoring introduced in the 16th century by the Dutch Walloons and refined by the French Huguenots.

8: English, our language, derived from German and Latin.

9: Our names for days-of-the-week are all derived from Norwegian/Danish gods (e.g. Thursday = Thor's Day)

10: Leading popular foods have European origins, including Pizza and Spaghetti (Italian), and chickens were introduced by the Romans.

Britain has been integrated with Europe for as long as Britain as we know it has existed.  The idea that Britain can stand alone flies in the face of what we learn from history. As Winston Churchill once said: “Those who fail to learn from history are apt to repeat its mistakes”.