The irony is that the far-right in European history supported the formation of a Eurostate. Mr Straw doesn’t seem to know who he is aligned with.

Conservatives shouldn’t be shy in declaring that we oppose the deconstruction of existing nation states, not out of “fear and hatred” but the very opposite, a love of our own national tradition and of a diversity between different national cultures.

Someone should send Jack Straw a copy of “This England” magazine, which does an excellent job in presenting a warmhearted English patriotism (www.thisengland.co.uk)

Well, there’s European unity and European Union.

One brings diverse sovereign nations together on the basis of a common Western and Christian civilization. It aims to 1.) improve relations and fair trade, 2.) prevent fratricidal wars like WWI and 3.) ward off outside enemies (the Commies, Islam, etc.)

The other tries to subvert all ethnic, cultural, political and religious identies into a bland Euroculture built for and controlled by a distant clique of bureaucrats.