When the process is over, England and Britain will be no more, having no political, legal or economic significance, remembered only in Shakespeare festivals and Morris-dancing. Without the EU’s enormous challenge to the pre-existing nations of Europe, none of this would be feasible. Alex Salmond would never have been heard of, the SNP still an eccentric gaggle of Gaelic-speaking fanatics, and there would be no referendum approaching. Without the collapse of British patriotism, Protestant, maritime, monarchist, liberty-loving in its bones, a collapse which I documented in 1999, none of this would have been even thinkable. Following that collapse, what force or ideas is there to stop it? Please don’t anybody mention an ‘English Parliament’. The worst thing about this terrible idea is that it might actually come about - some modern-architecture shed in Milton Keynes, in which the ‘regions’ of England are represented by party apparatchiks chosen from closed lists, and are allowed to debate the drainage budget and the number of windmills per hectare. As it is, the threat of a victory for the ‘yes’ campaign may for the first time alert the people of England and Scotland to the immense scale and importance of the political revolution which has been storming and stamping across Europe from the Atlantic to the River Bug for 50 years now, and shows no sign of ending.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 23:45:51 +0000
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