"UK, Outside the EU"

Here's a comment from Charlie on the open thread:

I’m really not liking the new banner being used as the studio backdrop on the 10:30pm BBC news tonight.  

It reads: UK, outside the EU.

I get the impression that this is a slur rather than a celebration. It’s a nasty little BBC trick they pull regularly with graphics as Arthur has pointed out numerous times.

I've screengrabbed the whole sequence leading up to that banner. See what you make of it:

I noticed how small they made the United Kingdom, cast adrift in the Irish Sea between a much bigger inside-the-EU Ireland and a large EU star. 

Are we reading too much into this, or is it a sly slur from the BBC?