Indeed again.
[iThe Daily Mail[/i was in favour of fascism in the 30's.
It is my belief that if Britain had suffered the same fate as Germany, paying massive war reparations from WWI, rampant inflation, widespread joblessness and general feeelings of "we are better than this" ... fascism could just as easily have caught on here.
In circumstances like that it's easy to blame outsiders or perceived outsiders ... to 1930's Germany it was Jews and the racially "impure", fast-forward to UK 2013 and it's the EU that's to blame and all these immigrants taking our jobs.
We and Germans are not that different.

But, having been on the winning side in WWI when the USA finally joined in (having deliberately waited until the UK had virtually run out of men and money), we were not in the same position and, anyway, wouldn't have wanted to adopt some political ideal from some Johnny Foreigner anyway.

I'd suggest it's no coincidence that we're seeing the rise of support for fascist parties in other places at present, such as Greece.

And to widen it a little, the analysis can be made that one of the major reasons for the rise of Islamic nationalist extremism, which shares many similar characteristics, was the failure of secular alternatives to Western imperialism/capitalism.



Well, unless it's the idea of the Chicago School, Milton Friedmann and the Tea Party etc.

Or maybe it's because minimum pricing would be very unpopular and introducing a bill to make cigarettes packets plain would just be a waste of time and effort.

Yes of course, they must be the real reasons.

How silly of us to think there may have been an ulterior motive

Just putting it out there.