Xenophobic UK politician ranting about "political correctness" gets a public spanking from an historian

[KarlS]

@d_r

I likewise don’t know if the EU questions are really fair ones in the UK, where the centuries-old tradition of treating the rest of Europe as a qualitatively different entity means they’ve never been acutely aware of the difference between (say) France and Belgium in the same way that the Germans have had to be.

I think that misses the point. The question are ridiculously easy for anyone who has paid attention. Identification with the EU is precisely what that poll is measuring. That the contingent of exceptionalists who delude themselves into thinking that they have less reason to know those things than continentals is reflected in the results is not a bug but a feature.