what have the (mainland) europeans ever done for us?

germans have shown us how to organise football and they and the spanish have shown us how to play it.
finns have shown us the best education system in the world.
french have shown us how much a sensible person should work in a week while producing great food, wine and cinema. and spiral.
iceland has shown us to punish the bankers and help the people.
apart from the french all other nations have shown us how a modern, successful and secure nation has no need for nuclear weapons or ruinous military spending.
all have moved beyond our divisive labour relations model - with workers representation on the board the norm.
workers and public assets are treated with respect and properly paid.
etc etc etc
but we choose not to see any of this with our tongue so far up uncle sam's arse.
tragic really - we have so much to teach them about beer

but we can't see any of this with