We are. Do you think someone dragged the whole country to new location?

Norway, Iceland and Switzerland are also not in the EU. Are they also on a different continent?

UK is European. Membership of EU is unnecessary for that criterion to be met.

The UK is not in the EU, but it is surely european.

I bet EU bureaucrats would love to dictate their redefinition of "European".

The UK is no longer in the EU; The UK is still in Europe and is very much European.