The British public is not stupid and will only be hoodwinked for a while, there's plenty of support for the anti fascist movements. If it takes another pitched battle to rid ourselves of this evil then so be it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2006/10/03/cablestreet_battle_feature.shtml
People looking in on Britain and gaining their information from partisan media and from their own prejudices have little idea what life is like here. As Britons we probably don't help because we have a habit of emphasising the worst of everything, we aren't very good about praising whats actually good about our country so people think we have rampant knife and gun crime, immigants everywhere taking over, bad weather, and loads of strikes yet when you really look at our country and remember we've been going a couple of millenia now on a scale of one to ten we aren't that bad off. We need of course to be vigilant, to watch what the government is doing but it is again our habit to always moan about the incumbant government whoever they maybe!
Whatever people think our country is actually less violent than years gone by, our people on the whole are better off than they've ever been, ask anyone who's lived through the 1920s and 30s. The NHS may creak and groan but again if you ask people what it was like pre NHS days they will tell you it's a godsend. Our social secuirty system may be abused, it may cost a fortune but in it's way it works, not pefect but is there any system in any country that is?
We are a people with a social conscience and I think few would go back to the old days of workhouses and medicine only for those that can afford it. If left to ourselves and not stirred up by the fascists we quietly do get on in our multi cultural society. We need as I said to take a long hard look at our education system and we need to start changes attitudes to working. this hasn't come about becuase of socialism quite the opposite I believe it's come from the Thatcher years when the slogan was 'greed is good', altruism was seen as bad and it was everyman for themselves, its left us with young people expecting to have the good things in life given to them. 'I will work for it' is replaced by 'I want it now!'
The immigrant communities have a lot to give us, after all there's no such thing as a pure blood Englishman, even our royal family aren't English let alone British. We have always absorbed immigrants we can again given common sense, not just by us but also by them. Encouragement to learn English, to integrate while keeping their identity is perfectly possible. Half the time it's not the immigrants but the white people who are the problem in that they get enamoured of the idea of being 'broadminded' and showing how much they 'understand' immigrants, actually it usually comes off as being bloody patronising.
One thing Thatcher did that was criminal was sell off council housing, we had a huge stock in this country of affordable rented housing which meant people who needed homes got them, more should have been built for councils not allow people to buy them at a discount and sell them on at a profit. More council housing would have spread immigrant populations across the country, making integration easier and no one council struggling to meet the needs of a large immigrant population. The councils should have been able to keep the council housing they had in good repair not let them run down because of capping by the successive governments. Still that's the Tories for you, greed is good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_estate
Good housing at affordable prices, good education with students leaving fulltime education equipped to work would go a long way to making this country a better place. As people get better jobs, earn more, buy their own houses, more council housing is available and so on and so on. A more prosperous and secure country is much better able to withstand the onslaught of the fascists.
?) and overly crowded housing. No gardens and not enough parking space are a recipe for disharmony as far as I can tell - but of course the private developers care only for how much profit they can squeeze from a piece of land rather than for the quality of life their 'developments' promote.
