How did England get moved so far to the right?

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23. In much of Europe, it's like that

The left has inadvertently (I hope) given the radical right a free ride in the name of "tolerance" for the views of immigrants, even when those views are loudly expressed by a tiny oppressive minority, and nurture fear and flight to the radical right. It doesn't matter how few the really dangerous ones are. If there is just one nasty incident or some big demonstration calling for violence and the TV cameras are there, the far right gets a free recruitment commercial. In England, where a whole town closed its eyes to a Pakistani-run ring of rapists of very young girls who profited when it finally came to light? Hint--not the British Left.

This is the European version of Cheneybush milking 9/11 for Republican votes, saying we needed them to protect us from terrrrists, therefore "shut up and let us invade Iraq," never mind that one had nothing to do with the other. At first, it worked for them, too. Later on the nation woke up, but Halliburton and friends had run off with the cash by then, so what did they care?