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This significant new textual content presents a scientific evaluate and evaluation of all facets of Britain's family with the european and of the level to which British politics has been Europeanised because becoming a member of. the writer argues that regardless of its common characterisation as a clumsy associate, Britain isn't really on my own between european participants in being out of step on events - even though those were extra widespread than for different significant member states - and has a great checklist of compliance with ecu regulations as soon as followed.
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For an English nationalist, European integration could rather straightforwardly be construed as a threat. This ‘Englishness’ does need to be contrasted with Scottish, Welsh and (more problematically) Northern Irish identities. Scottish and Welsh 28 The European Union and British Politics identities in particular have been strongly influenced by Englishness in that they have been largely defined in opposition to it, and could thus have more space for ‘Europe’. There also exist competing interpretations of British historical relations with Europe such that ‘England against Europe’ is too sweeping.
Support for integration dwindles during hard times, yet there is no doubt that EU membership has also at times been linked with high growth rates. Whether there are relationships of cause and effect here is of course disputable. 2 shows gross domestic product per capita as a percentage of their average for the 15 countries that were EU member states as of 2002. The relative economic decline and recovery of Britain is striking. By this measure, the UK was the fourth richest EU member state in 2002 having languished in twelth place in the mid-1990s, although the strength of sterling did contribute to this resurgence.
Within these national identities there are also often ideas about what constitutes a just social order such as the French evocation of liberté, égalité et fraternité. There can also be ideas about what constitutes the good life: for example, John Major invoked a sentimental and reactionary vision of ‘Englishness’ as ‘the country of long shadows on county [cricket] grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers, and as George Orwell said, old maids cycling to communion through the morning mist … Britain will survive, unamendable in all essentials’ (cited in Seldon, 1997: 370).