I thought we were ruled by technocrats from Brussels and then after they've drank that town dry, they move to Strasbourg to do the same there?

We ended up with krauts on the throne because our last Stuart monarch (Queen Anne - actually, remember, a Scottie by descent,from Mary Queen of Scots), had no heirs and the bovine George of Hanover, a great hater of "bainters and boets" was the nearest in line who was a decent protty and not a left-footer.

I should have thought that, after WWI and WWII, the Windsors have convincingly shed their kraut heritage and become Brits. Apart from all that, I do not see that the krauts are all that influential on British society at any level: still mildly suspected as there are still many alive of whom one might inquire: "What did your family do in the War?"

But, anyway don't let's be beastly to the Germans.

There are supposedly 2.2 million Brits living in various EU countries, so as Germany has the largest european population it's a fair bet that quite a few of them are here in the UK. There is also the small matter that Germany is the richest country in the EU and that anything worthwhile in this country tends to have been sold to foreigners by our upper and upper middle classes who are largein' it up on the proceeds whilst the rest of us slowly slip downhill on a smear of borrowed money.

Uruguay was the one I was thinking of.