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Originally Posted by Keeping It Gimple

imagine a populace so deferent, so utterly dedicated to placid contentment, so thrilled at the prospect of seeming more stuffy and mediocre than the next person, with none of that satanic american individualism and little anti government paranoia

damn. do people at least leave you alone if you don't comply? or is there pressure to be-- placid, content, stuffy & mediocre? if so, what form does it take?

Originally Posted by demonrail666

Completely agree in terms of the Tories, but the successes of UKIP and the SNP means a large percentage of the population are motivated by more than just financial prosperity. Labour lost the economic vote to the Tories but they also seem to have lost the cultural one to nationalists.

and wtf is this UKIP i've never heard about?

i'm looking at their very-purple website and get little information.

e.g.:

http://www.ukip.org/tags/immigration

says "The page you were looking for was not found."

great platform!