What's the European Dimension?

There is a great focus on englishness and on the country, but you also are very drawn to certain kinds of european treditions of political thought. So that's another frustration of contemporary politics, the european wide political parties are nover taken off. It's never been the case that england has been enclosed. We've got the institutions, the common law, the monarchy cambridge, which are very strong internal systems that mediate. But they've always been open to the world, rather than just imbedded in a local discourse.