It's not that I take it as a personal attack, it's that I attribute various different comments and actions to highlight a similar attitude. People seem to be attaching their own views and prejudices to this argument so it's not going far at all in terms of open discussion so I'll probably leave commenting on the matter further but it was just a simple comparative to how Junckers comments and the EU's actions have been similar in their approach. I never directly said they are just like them just that a similar reaction is visible. People have got too hardline to discuss this sort of issue really but junckers comments along with switching to french and having to apologise due to other comments have highlighted a similar response. You're fixating on small parts of my comment without context though, I never said he was wrong in what he said, I said the collective gathers a picture of a comparable position from one EU politician to one conservative one. It's easy to see some rallying and getting upvoted a lot for condemning the UK politician yet when similarities and comparsions can be made (as stated not to a 1:1 scale) the hard line attitudes stop fair comparison. People are just too biased to discuss this rationally so there is little need to continue, I couldn't give enough examples of juncker to convince some if I had a suitcase full.

Oh well, it was only a passing comment but I can see it's really inflamed some of the anti-brits, wonder where that hard line position came from though.