S David Cameron succumbs to the hysteria of demonising Vladimir Putin's attempt to block EU intervention in Ukraine by sending a full battle group to take part in Exercise Black Eagle in Poland in September it seems that he is about to repeat the crass misjudgements he made in Libya and in Syria which means that the English, as Gerald Morgan suggests in so many words, find themselves, albeit 100 years later, once again 'lions led by donkeys'.

The unscrupulous EU (UK membership of which Messrs Cameron and Harper so vainly promote) having abandoned any strategic caution, is hell-bent on becoming a cultural imperialist of soft power objectives implemented by a single currency, army and foreign policy.

Fifty years ago no less a person than the Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn imagined Ukraine breaking away from the USSR and he went on to warn us prophetically that 'with Ukraine, things will get extremely painful.'

Well the 'pain' has now arrived. And for unelected Eurocrats and self-serving politicians to satisfy their desire for regional influence by signing the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement on June 27 2014 is wholly lacking in any understanding of Ukraine's deep rooted complexities and any vision for its future which, as Solzhenitsyn imagined, 'is likely to require a referendum for each of its regions.'

If 'the tragedy of the working class,' as the 19th century Liberal politician John Burns pointed out, 'is the poverty of their desires', then the disaster of today's political class is the vanity of their wishes.

Britain (or England if Scotland votes 'Yes') must make up its mind where its loyalties and its destiny lie.

We can no longer afford the Lib/Lab/Con pact's 'never-ending fair in a town called Vanity', where most things are up for sale – like the latest batch of peerages 'awarded' to what Unlock Democracy calls 'big donors, hangers-on and washed-up politicians who have already been rejected by voters' – in our land of the pilgrim's regress.

Money, money, money. Do these politicians ever think about anything else?

What about sovereignty, democracy, openness and independence?

Most of us would never pledge allegiance to the European Union or go to war for it.

The enemy is no longer in a far-flung corner of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; it is now within and apparently flying the black flag of ISIS at the entrance to a council estate near Canary Wharf in the East End of London.

What price membership of the European Union, when the freedom for which our forefathers fought and died 100 years ago is threatened from within – from within an increasingly atomised, rudderless and 'Disunited' Kingdom?

 'A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious,' said Cicero. 'But it cannot survive treason from within...the traitor rots the soul of a nation.'

– John Muir, Newnham.