ABSTRACT
Sovereignty, the firm base of the nation state, is the issue which dare not speak its name lying at the heart of Britain’s tortured relationship with the European Union. Little discussed and regularly misinterpreted, sovereignty is crucial because the European Union’s lurching drive to ever closer union is a struggle over sovereignty between members and a collective building its own, European, sovereignty. This is a zero sum game. The nation state’s loss is Europe’s gain. What the European Union decides the British people cannot.
