Show me another far-Right leader who has built their platform on women's and gay rights and the defence of religious freedom. In fact, show me one who is positive about the role of the Jewish people in world history. Nope, it doesn't fit. None of it does. But "far-Right" will be used by people too lazy to realise they are navigating the world with a defunct lexicon and a broken compass.

From the British point of view, what is most fascinating about this and associated events across Europe is that they show us to be so desperately lagging. While the Cameron-Clegg team continues to enforce a rigidly and hilariously PC attitude, their opposite numbers on the continent are finally starting to stand up for themselves against the racism and supremacism of the third-worlder cultists.

Take just one example. In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy's effort to fulfil his promise to ban the burqa is under way. Next door, the Belgian Parliament voted nearly unanimously to ban the full-face covering. In Holland, the now third-largest party advocates a ban. And in Northern Italy, a woman has been fined by police for wearing the garment.

So a number of our closest European allies are actively seeking a ban. Yet in Britain, can anyone imagine David Cameron announcing such a thing? Impossible. Even if he didn't go as far as calling for a ban, could he or Nick Clegg have the will to say that there are things which Britain will tolerate and things that it will not? No, he would be decried by the Westminster political and journalistic consensus and informed that such statements were impossibly illiberal and would only "inflame" matters. As Bronwen Maddox impeccably expressed it in her analysis for The Times: the Wilders electoral breakthrough will simply "add even more bitterness to the Dutch debate on immigration". Silly Dutch people for not accepting the situation their politicians thought best for them. Silly them for causing the bitterness.

At the heart of coalition Britain is a failure of imagination. The press assists and magnifies this. We may not be looking to the continent for economic advice, but we could do worse than look to them for inspiration on matters that will survive even the deficit. We may even wonder whether it is Britain, rather than Wilders, that's beginning to look like the odd man out.