They are not ‘anti-Europe’. Being against EU is to be *for* Europe. No greater Europhile than staunch nationalist Enoch Powell, a Classics scholar who spoke four European languages. For him the greatness of European culture was premised on its nation states whose dissolution is EU’s principal object. If any entity is anti-European it’s the EU itself. As to ‘far-right’, that’s just media-speak for anyone daring to defend national identity as the form of political loyalty for Europeans, that’s to say *pro-European*.
Enoch Powell also learnt Urdu while at Cambridge (attending classes at SOAS), making him one of the few MPs who could speak the language (at the time). Apparently this was because he was ambitious to become Viceroy of India.
They are not ‘anti-Europe’. Being against EU is to be *for* Europe. No greater Europhile than staunch nationalist Enoch Powell, a Classics scholar who spoke four European languages. For him the greatness of European culture was premised on its nation states whose dissolution is EU’s principal object. If any entity is anti-European it’s the EU itself. As to ‘far-right’, that’s just media-speak for anyone daring to defend national identity as the form of political loyalty for Europeans, that’s to say *pro-European*.
Enoch Powell also learnt Urdu while at Cambridge (attending classes at SOAS), making him one of the few MPs who could speak the language (at the time). Apparently this was because he was ambitious to become Viceroy of India.
Good grief