"I think there is something wrong with English institutions and politicians.In order to fix the problem,it won't be enough to quit the EU".

Armor,are you sure you didn't plagiarize this line from an old Peter Hitchens column? It certainly sounds like Peter to me.

Armor wrote,"I don't hear the British EU bashers criticizing British leftist policies and lack of democracy in Britain...".

Then you must be deaf!

Start by listening to the Mail on Sunday journalist,Peter Hitchens.

The European identity does exist (although the EU would like to get rid of it). Unlike Belgian identity, it isn't something artificial. Of course, there is room for diversity within the European identity (although the EU may not like that). There is also a measure of European patriotism among some of us. Personally, I do not feel indifferent to the destruction of Europe by third world immigration. I am not interested exclusively in the small place where I live.

"The EU functions – or malfunctions – on the same principle as Belgium."

In Flanders, I think the Vlaams Belang wants to break with Belgian leftism. They want to remain a European country and stop immigration. But I don't hear the English EU bashers criticizing Britain's leftist policies and its lack of democracy. I think we could say that Britain functions – or malfunctions – more or less on the same principle as Belgium. In Britain, the mass immigration policy has been carried out by the London government, not by Brussels (even though most English people did not want any immigration). Tony Blair's support for the entry of Turkey in the EU was an effort to strip the EU of its European identity. I think there is something wrong with English institutions and politicians. In order to fix the problem, it won't be enough to quit the EU.

"The Commonwealth is an association of independent states consulting and co operating in the common interests of their people..."

Keywords: Independent states

see: http://www.thecommonwealth.org/

Only if/when Flanders and Wallonia separate into independent states can you hope to have your commonwealth and not until.

Malfunctions yes, like everywhere inclusive the UK.

No common language,-identity and of course no patriotism (except when it goes for the anti-islamists). That's all true but it needs time and how long it took to build the Commonwealth ? 

"Both systems work by levying money out of the majority in order to buy the loyalty of a powerful and articulate minority within each national group."