Why do people in the UK often pretend they're not in Europe?

[Pyro as Bill]

trashleg said:
pfft PLEASE,

its not the UK.

its England, Wales and N.I. and then there's Scotland.

so while the englanders pretend they're not in Europe, we're still fighting that we're not even in the UK

Some of us hate King James VI of SCOTLAND as much as you trashleg  

Queen Elizabeth the first must have gone a little mad in her old age. Maybe she felt a little guilty about Mary Queen of Scotch Scots.