Scruton: The warning contained in this book [A Throne in Brussels] is simple: hold fast to your national identity, you nations of Europe, or else dissolve, like Belgium, in a sea of corruption and despair.

I realize that this posting is off-topic, considering that this thread is intended to discuss the sale of Belgium on eBay, however, I could not resist. Mr. Scruton certainly has spent a great deal of time and energy justifying the nation and therefore the nation-state. I've noticed two interesting problems through reading his works: (1) the nation's value is purely instrumental rather than inherent and is thus vulnerable to replacement by more suitable polities of either the sub or supranational variety; (2) he considers races to be as equally viable a form of social organisation as nations.

It seems that Mr. Scruton wants a return to a time when Western Europe, and Great Britain in particular, was Christian and White i.e. before the days of Christian recession and before minorities (if they existed at all) became visible. Unfortunately, everything is fluid and changes over time: the world he championed was clearly not static and invariably brought about the conditions he laments today.

Mr. Scruton recognises that the policies of multiculturalism and political correctness (other economic and social policies notwithstanding) are being enacted throughout Western countries, or more accurately, White countries. Therefore the problems are international in nature and are being supported by internationalists. Yet his response is equally internationalist: international nationalism. Yet this seems more akin to White Nationalism than traditional nationalism, even if he is not a fan of fascists or national socialists.

I'm sure that other people will read Scruton differently, but as far as I am concerned, his frustration with relatively recent changes (particularly demographic and cultural) is barely concealed.