ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book presents a comparison between a process of European integration that is viewed as continuous with European political modernisation and the British state that is considered to be opposed to such developments. The emergence of Eurosceptic Britain is the product of a long history of British political and economic development. The book explores European integration as a facet of organised modernity consistent with national modernisation with a British imperial state and a post-imperial crisis characterised by a distinct absence of coherent projects of modernisation. It expresses that the defence of Britain against the European 'other' whether from Eurosceptics on the political left or the right has been a defence of a particular kind of state and political order that has its roots in imperialism.
