The real problem is continental drift: Brussels, the capital of the European Union, is getting further and further away from England. Or at least that is British Prime Minister David Cameron's line.
Cameron made his long awaited speech promising a referendum on continued British membership in the European Union on Jan. 23, and he placed the blame squarely on plate tectonics: "People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent."
The "frustrated" people in question are English, of course. Hostility to the EU is mainly an English thing, but that matters a lot in the United Kingdom, where 55 million of the 65 million people live in England.