The union is currently reviled perhaps like never before: a euro debacle, debt swamping the continent, expansion stalled, sluggish economies going backwards, euroscepticism on the rise.
The idea that, deep down, still, there ain't no black in the union jack is reiterated every time a Conservative leader evokes Enoch Powell's grim dystopia – from Margaret Thatcher's 1978 "swamping" statement via William Hague's 2001 "journey to a foreign land" speech to David Cameron's 2011 warning against the "discomfort and disjointedness" created by immigrants into settled neighbourhoods.
There was no talk of immigrants swamping the country, no vision of fortress Britain.This is odd, given the seeming strength of public opinion on the matter.
He does not speak of swamping Mr Obama's effort, but of keeping pace.Such a stalemate is to be expected, says Lynn Vavreck of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Another group called Lizard Squad ruins Christmas for millions by swamping video-game networks.But these attacks were all too real, and reality is messier than fiction.
He wants, according to this theory, to force the whole population into the government-controlled cities, thus swamping the virtually non-existent public services, highlighting the government's indifference to people's suffering, and provoking an outraged uprising against President Jose Eduardo dos Santos.
They are just the sort of people Thailand can least afford to lose.For now, ya baa cases are swamping the courts and the prisons.
Around the world, biology laboratories are now pumping out literally terabytes (trillions of bytes) of information every month, swamping themselves in a sea of indigestible data.Mr Gerstel believes data-swamping is unique to biology.
Those effects, in turn, could allow many desperate companies to return to a semblance of solvency, and so halt the inexorable rise of bad debts swamping the region's banks.
AN UNSTOPPABLE tide of British journalists is flooding into eastern Slovakia, swamping law-abiding local residents with demands for free interviews.
Otherwise, on blustery days you risk swamping your own grid, and on calm days going short.European officials predict that their policy will redistribute wealth to poor neighbours.
