Patriotism Can Be A Positive.

Nick Martinek, Briarlyn Road, Huddersfield. 
IT is rather difficult, to put it mildly, to be a patriot of a country that ceases to exist. The purpose of the EU is to eliminate the European nation states, accruing all significant power to itself. That’s what the EU treaties mean in the preambles instructing “ever closer union”. So Brian Black (The Yorkshire Post, April 2) is incorrect, it is not possible to be a British patriot and an EU patriot. He must choose one or the other. That’s because if we had remained in the EU, sooner or later, the UK – or even England – would cease to exist as a nation in its own right, completely subsumed in the developing EU empire. I am not prepared to see that happen. Perhaps he is. Yet he is mistaken in his disdain of nationalism. The existence of the nation is critical in providing the “demos” necessary for democracy. Driven by his confusion about patriotism, he cannot see that it is the animus to conquest, not nationalism, that causes wars. The EU’s stealthy conquest by bureaucracy is actually the problem.

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