English-speaking polity on the Continent?

Superficially, I was thinking of how British and associated white commonwealth politics are different from Continental ones. They have fewer parties in their parliaments. First past the post. Like Americans, free market thinking is a bigger deal. IDK, think what makes England and Wales think of themselves distinct enough to want to pursue Brexit. Despite the Danish roots in the British identity, the Scandinavians are more like the other Euros in this respect than the Brits, it would seem.
The reasons why England and Wales voted for the Brexit don`t necessarily have to be limited to a more distinctly different cultural or political identity. Xenophobia and fear of globalisation, a support for protectionist policies etc. (so not exactly the "free market thinking" you ascribe to English political culture!) had a lot to do with it, I suppose it, just like they had with Trump`s presidential election, or with the parliamentary elections in Poland and Hungary and, to some extent, even in the Netherlands. Basically, people who voted Wilders in the Netherlands are not a sign that the Dutch are different from the English, they are pretty much those people who would have voted pro Brexit in Britain. And UKIP shared a parliamentary group membership with Wilders.

Honestly, I don`t think "British" culture is altogether that different from that of the Continent because "the Continent" is pretty diverse in every possible aspect, too. There are a few things "the Continent" shares (a Christian history, a certain degree of prosperity, dense population, high levels of education, a history spanning at least across the middle ages, recently also some type of democracy), but they share these with Britain, too.

Yes, the Scandinavians share all of these with the other EUropeans, too. I just brought them up because of a) the "Danish roots" you mentioned and b) the great fixation Scandinavian foreign trade had with Britain well into the second third of the 20th century. Also, they`re parliamentary monarchies. You won`t get more overlappings with British culture anywhere else on the continent.

As for being pro-free market, I don`t know, I don`t see that as quintessentially British, but if you do, I would say that at the moment, the governments of Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland and a lot more are at least as British as the Brits, who are currently in the process of withdrawing from one of the hugest free trade projects in history.

As for First Past the Post, that`s easy. Most countries which have proportional representation only have a (somewhat) uninterrupted parliamentary tradition since the 19th century, so they modelled their parliaments drawing on experiences of others when designing them. Older, longer-standing parliamentary traditions, on the other hand, carry over a lot of stuff that made sense in the past but not necessarily today, but they stick with it because they´re proud of their old democratic traditions. So if you want more quirky FPTP election systems on the continent, I suggest creating earlier parliamentary states there that don`t become completely shaken up into new polities down the line.
 
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