The Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats see themselves as the forward-looking, progressive voices of British politics.
The latest opinion polls suggest that, after a general election, they might even cobble together some sort of governing liberal-Left alliance between them, since nobody looks like getting an overall majority.
Which is a worry – because when it comes to the European Union, which they’d both like to rejoin (even if they can’t quite bring themselves to say so) they are backward-looking, myopic, stuck in a time warp.
Neither has grasped that the Europe of today is nothing like the Europe the country voted to
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