Reactions to elections in Poland and Germany show how Europe’s elites twist ‘democracy’ to mean whatever suits their interests

Nigel Farage’s former political vehicle appears to have polished up its act.

The result also makes a new referendum on ditching of the monarchy highly unlikely.

The party is seeking closer ties with the EU following the “very, very bitter divorce” of Brexit.

Liberalism inherited a Christian psychology but, having jettisoned the Rock of Ages, built its political theory upon the sand.

There is a passivity about poll-watching, as if we were ancients reading the runes or chicken entrails in a bid to foretell a future that is beyond our control.

If what I am imagining to be Farage’s strategy is successful, he will have pulled off the most dramatic internal regime change in the history of the Conservative Party.

“Where the other parties talk about ‘coexistence’, we talk about assimilation and integration. Only in this way can conflict be avoided—everything else brings chaos and problems.”

Conservatives are about to realise that they have inherited an untenable philosophy for the world in which we find ourselves. On its current course, the Anglo-American tradition is doomed to fail.

Our Democracy Watch column tracks the battles between the EU elites and the peoples of Europe.

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