You’re right, but this is probably a losing battle. People are probably never going to stop colloquially referring to the political entity that contains most of

You’re right, but this is probably a losing battle. People are probably never going to stop colloquially referring to the political entity that contains most of Europe’s land and population as “Europe”. And, being on an island, British people are probably never going to stop thinking of “the continent” as at least a little bit of a different thing from themselves.