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

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@KarlS

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.

You mean the continent of exceptionalists? Even with paying attention it isn’t so easy in the UK, as you’re not hammered with the information; details of the EU structure is not regular fare in the Daily Mail. That is not an individual choice, but the choice of the news establishment.