Their political day is over, their condition terminal. We can suffer chaos, as in the countries listed above, or work out something new. We need the vision provided by at least the outline of a grand design. It is time to spurn the alleged virtue of those who assure us that they have no blueprints to offer. Let them make their way for those who have.
Experiments can then begin.
It is time for intensive social invention, for countless pilot projects. The old cards have been shuffled enough - and have yielded nothing. The future belongs to decentralised extra-parliamentary democracy in a Confederal Europe of the Regions. The emergence of sovereign regions in England. Sovereign in the essential sense that they raise and spend their own taxes and that national and EC government is answerable to them, not the other way round, a complete inversion of the present position.