Grexit’s a good start, but can we also kick out France, Spain and Portugal too?

I think it is time to put into effect my plan for the re-shaping of the European Union. A somewhat scaled-down European Union: Greece wouldn’t be in it, for a start. Nor Portugal or Spain or France or indeed Italy south of a line which I have just drawn on my Times Atlas of the World in felt-tip pen, stretching east north east from Genoa to Trieste.

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Grexit's a good start, but can we also kick out France, Spain and Portugal too?

All southern European countries will be excluded from my new union

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