http://britologywatch.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/england-the-inconvenient-nation-blocking-european-federation/ Resisting the efforts to impose a unitary British value system and identity Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:44:33 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://britologywatch.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/england-the-inconvenient-nation-blocking-european-federation/#comment-981 England: The Inconvenient Nation Blocking European Federation Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:56:37 +0000 http://britologywatch.wordpress.com/?p=91#comment-981 [...] Endlessly Rocking wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptEngland and the EU represent two fundamentally opposing traditions and philosophies. England is the historical and spiritual centre of the great Anglo-Saxon civilisation: ‘Anglo-Saxon’ not in the sense of our ancient forebears who gave England and several of its counties and regions their names, along with a much disputed portion of our genetic inheritance; but ‘Anglo-Saxon’ in the sense of the culture, mentality and way of life of the English and the countries of the English-speaking world, particularly our North American and Australian cousins. This is in fact how the French tend to use the word, often derogatorily. The EU, on the other hand, is the present-day avatar of the European philosophical and political tradition that reaches back to the civilisations of the ancient world, particularly Greece and Rome. You could say that the EU is the inheritor of the Roman Empire, the ideal of which survived after the collapse of […] [...] [...] Endlessly Rocking wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptEngland and the EU represent two fundamentally opposing traditions and philosophies. England is the historical and spiritual centre of the great Anglo-Saxon civilisation: ‘Anglo-Saxon’ not in the sense of our ancient forebears who gave England and several of its counties and regions their names, along with a much disputed portion of our genetic inheritance; but ‘Anglo-Saxon’ in the sense of the culture, mentality and way of life of the English and the countries of the English-speaking world, particularly our North American and Australian cousins. This is in fact how the French tend to use the word, often derogatorily. The EU, on the other hand, is the present-day avatar of the European philosophical and political tradition that reaches back to the civilisations of the ancient world, particularly Greece and Rome. You could say that the EU is the inheritor of the Roman Empire, the ideal of which survived after the collapse of […] [...]

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