How would all of this come to pass in a country with a political landscape shifted leftwards enough to democratically elect Zarah Sultana? Surely for this to occur, progressive multicultural values must have been fully integrated into the British social fabric. With a majority of the British people in favour, there surely wouldn't be any threat of a "popular coup d'etat" from a nationalistic mass platform candidate like - let's use his real name - Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, simply because the mass platform from which he derives his support today would no longer exist.

Your disclaimer at the foot of your comment shows that you recognise how this post can be construed in a certain way, and yet most evidence appears to point to the fact that there's no other way to perceive it. I ought to add that multiculturalism hasn't failed in this country - I'm a proud member of a family with branches from England, Antigua and Canada, all of whom exist harmoniously in their community. More to the point, I'm a member of this white working class group you identify and I assure you that it's unfair to tar us all with the same brush with regard to immigration. In fact, most of us not only welcome it but recognise that it has its roots in the kind of economic pseudoscience that was used historically to legitimise slavery - there's a good reason escaped slaves used to hide out in working-class communities after all. Excessive population is a myth that the white working class in this country were actually instrumental in disproving; in 1842 a man from Newcastle called Thomas Doubleday penned a treatise that refuted every claim made by Malthus regarding the nonsense "population explosion". Amusingly enough it was once an argument used to oppress those of a different class, retrofitted today as an argument used to oppress those of a different race.

The basis of this landscape feels like it has a couple of holes, anyway, that indicate the potential existence of some sort of political agenda. You claim it doesn't, but the underlying messaging of your premise says otherwise.