Britain is likely to end up with a short-lived minority government

HAVE the Brits finally become European, a discussion paper by the European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank asked last week?

No, they won’t be joining the Eurozone, certainly anytime soon, and popular British (or, more accurately, English) attitudes to the EU are still decidedly hostile. UKIP, the United Kingdom Independence Party, which wants to withdraw entirely, came second in their European elections last year, remember. But, in another sense, it’s a fair question.

How so? Well, across the rest of Europe coalition government is the norm. Here, of course, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael only dream of single-party government ever again.