A story in yesterday's Observer (which for some reason appears to have vanished from its website) says that Britain is to block moves to include a 'Christian clause' in the EU constitution, arguing that it should reflect instead Europe's 'multi-faith and multicultural make-up'. This confirms what has long been obvious in Britain itself -- that the Blair government is intent on destroying the particular cultural basis of British and European society. Yes, Britain and Europe now host many faiths and cultures; but unless they hang on to their own founding culture and its principles, that culture will be swept away.

The Blairites subscribe to the fallacy of the left that upholding a discrete national culture, based on a particular history and traditions, is exclusive and discriminatory towards others. They subscribe instead to supra-national doctrines of 'human rights', which they believe should be imposed on the world through supra-national institutions. But real human rights, as opposed to the anti-democratic, judge-made variety, are rooted in Judeo-Christian values. That's why European culture has given them expression. Negate the roots of that culture and eventually those human rights will be compromised.

Destroying the Christian roots of European culture will not usher in a secular utopia where everyone will worship at the shrine of Blairism. It will create a philosophical and intellectual vacuum, an undefended cultural space, ripe for colonisation in particular by Islam, which has its eye firmly on this very opportunity. In opposing the attempt by countries such as Ireland, Italy and Poland to reassert the basis of European values -- a heroic attempt, given the overt secular evangelicalism of the EU and European human rights projects -- the Blair government has once again revealed its shallow, ahistorical, neo-Jacobinism which has British identity and western values in its revolutionary sights.