Why can't Europe be united as a nation?

@redredred And proudly so.

Stuff the UK and it’s isolationism.

@SW-User looking at Europe today, I can’t thank my ancestors enough for leaving. 1500 years since Rome fell and you guys still have over a dozen different languages, and even more borders separating tiny little countries. I speak the common (but not official) language of the neighboring states and all but one Canadian provinces.

Great cheese though.

@redredred I live partly in Spain and in the UK. And have lived in France. There is a rich common cultural heritage. I miss the Eastern European diffusion into our country.

So where is the UK to turn to, surely not the USA, a failed msn made Utopia. Our links with Canada are slender and our links to Australia are all but non existent.