Only tangentially related, but the last thing I read about the EU Parliament made it sound like the multiple euroskeptic groups thing is essentially because of British people being embarassed to be right wing -- the EFDD being formed because UKIP didn't want to be in the same grouping as France's National Front etc.*, and ECR being formed because the UK Tories didn't want to be in the same grouping as UKIP.
(* Hooking up with 5Stars and basically no one else to do it -- an ideologically incoherent bloc if there ever was one!)
Of course, like any attempt to render EU politics into human language, probably an oversimplification.
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Date: 2019-01-09 04:22 pm (UTC)(* Hooking up with 5Stars and basically no one else to do it -- an ideologically incoherent bloc if there ever was one!)
Of course, like any attempt to render EU politics into human language, probably an oversimplification.