EU treaty: John Palmer replies

Anthony Barnett (London, OK): John Palmer has replied with admirable brevity in the comments to the OpenEurope response to his post. This debate is very important both externally in terms of the UK's position in the world and internally in the sense of whether we trust our political system. One of the aspects that has not been discussed to my knowledge is the role of imagination. People get very het up about defending their identity (or identities if, like me, you admire Michael Keith's arguments). But where do they see themselves and their children heading in the future, what kind of world are they looking forward to? One reason why these debates often argue past each other is that their protagonists live in quite different imaginative universes.