For_England

"Free institutions are next to impossible in a country made up of different nationalities. Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion necessary to the working of representative government cannot exist. The influences which form opinions and decide political acts are different in the different sections of the country. An altogether different set of leaders have the confidence of one part of the country and of another. The same books, newspapers, pamphlets, speeches do not reach them. One section does not know what opinions, or what instigations, are circulating in another. The same incidents, the same acts, the same system of government affect them in different ways; and each fears more injury to itself from the other nationalities than from the common arbiter, the state.” (John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government (1861), in Collected Works, Vol. 19, Essays on Politics and Society, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1977, p.547).

For_England

"Thus the utopia of multiculturalism involves a bureaucratic class presiding over a nation divided into a variety of ethnic nationalities. That, of course, looks awfully like the old Soviet Union."
Thatcher (said while actively turning the UK into a Soviet state)

TonyG

And the BNP getting power would also guarantee a police state.

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For_England

Not according to their stated policies. In fact one of their ex-councillors in a speech referred to John Stuart Mill's argument. If they are really fascist, then somebody forgot to inform the bulk of the membership.

TonyG

That wouldn't be a surprise. That's normal for all political parties.

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