I suppose so, but not really in that sense
I'd prefer Enlightenment European if we're chucking labels around, not that's necessarily helpful.
I cant help the country I was raised in and am not really blessed with the social mobility that would perhaps make a move abroad that easy. Though, if the whole implosion of the financial hadnt have happened I would probably making a hash of living in Spain or Ireland right now.
Everyone thinks they have the most bigoted, small-minded housewife at home.
And some of us are right.
Although perhaps that's just housewives for you.
Indeed, it's only really massive tax dodging companies that get away with being supranational
or those tiny few who benefitted from the fall of communism so massively that they ended up as rich as croesus.
Radical in the traditional sense in embracing reform, raer than in the broader sense
Which often relates to extremities.
If we represent anything politically it is the ability to achieve peaceful and gradual reform at apprriate points. It is precisely that ability which avoids the need for genuinely 'radical' reform.
In other words it gets done just very, very slowly.
You should have come to Bosnia with the boys and I then. That would've enlightened you about Europe.
And carpet bombing.
And how best to avoid sniper fire.
And how there's no such thing as an alcohol ban when British reporters and FCO bigwigs are around.
Enlightenment European. How very Eddie Izzard.
Mopeds. Coffee outside. Ciao!
Mussolini.
Right. All full of foreigners, you see.
Well, I didn't want to mention you personally.
