A new Empire is being born.

I don’t think I have ever see a Liberal Democrat ever stand and cheer and clap the British Empire.   

So it was rather astonishing to see their conference whooping to the rafters as the EU Parliament’s Brexit co-ordinator Guy Verhofstadt declared that his vison was a European Empire.   

Forgive me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the last time someone suggested a European Empire in 1933, it all ended horribly?