Not willing to surrender a hard earned sovereignty to Brussels, multiculturalism or global capitalism.
Nationalism has been slowly but steadily gaining ground in Europe.Euro-nationalism is based on an opposition to the European Unionpolitical project, multiculturalism, mass immigration, globalisationand libertarian laissez-faire policies. Chiefly it builds on thegrowing alienation that the liberalised modern life has brought; thecollapse of local communities, the destruction of traditions,unemployment, the attack on our Christian faith, culturally andspiritually, and the inadequacy of materialism and consumerism to fillthe holes in ours lives.
People are fed up. The arrogance of the European establishment canbe seen in the failure of many countries to give referendums on theLisborn Treaty aka. the European Constitution as well as the fact theyignored the Irish and Netherlands ‘No.’ Instead they have called foranother referendum to get the answer they wanted, ‘Yes.’ It is clear that the Christian Europe of nations does not want tobecome a globalised, multicultural Europe under a distant liberalpolitical elite. Additionally the recession and banking crisis hasexposed the greed and moral collapse in our societies with the mindlessspending of money we don’t have on goods that are not needed comingback to haunt us, whilst the bankers are bailed out by massivegovernment subsidies, subsidies that should have gone into rejuvenatinglocal communities and small businesses.
Today in European politics a mixture of liberal and culturallyMarxist (stemming from the Frankfurt school) ideas dominate ourinstitutions, government and establishment and through these themeaningless but almost fascistically dominant abstract ideas of‘equality’, ‘diversity’, ‘racism’, ‘freedom’ have become the tenants ofour new religion that would have us create a heaven here on earth. Tomany people the cracks in these utopian ideas are becoming morevisible as the real ’stuff’ of societies is being abandoned;traditions, ethnicity, the family, spirituality, community, history andexperience. Not all have given up on the concept of the nation-state,the concept in which our political traditions, our historicalrealities, our morals lie; the organic community forged by history,Burke’s contract between the living and the dead.