{"id":11985,"date":"2019-09-13T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11985"},"modified":"2019-09-12T15:42:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T22:42:58","slug":"is-england-still-part-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/is-england-still-part-of-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Is England Still Part of Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>British prime minister Boris Johnson is desperate to translate the British public\u2019s June 2016 vote to leave the European Union into a concrete Brexit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the real issue is far older and more important than whether 52 percent of Britain finally became understandably aggrieved by the increasingly anti-democratic and German-controlled European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>England is an island. Historically, politically, and linguistically, it was never permanently or fully integrated into European culture and traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story of Britain has mostly been about conflict with France, Germany, or Spain. The preeminence of the Royal Navy, in the defiant spirit of its sea lords, ensured that European dictators from Napoleon to Hitler could never set foot on British soil. As British admiral John Jervis reassured his superiors in 1801 amid rumors of an impending Napoleonic invasion, \u201cI do not say, my lords, that the French will not come. I say only they will not come by sea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Britain\u2019s sea power, imperialism, parliamentary government, and majority-Protestant religion set it apart from its European neighbors \u2014 and not just because of its geographical isolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/09\/england-europe-never-fully-integrated\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review British prime minister Boris Johnson is desperate to translate the British public\u2019s June 2016 vote to leave the European Union into a concrete Brexit. But the real issue is far older and more important than whether 52 percent of Britain finally became understandably aggrieved by the increasingly anti-democratic and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-37j","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9277,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/setting-the-record-straight-on-britain-america-and-world-war-ii\/","url_meta":{"origin":11985,"position":0},"title":"Setting the Record Straight on Britain, America, and World War II","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"By Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Online While in London last week, President Obama waded into the upcoming British referendum about whether the United Kingdom should stay in the European Union. 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