This country has never embraced political extremism. While many nations across Europe succumbed to fascist or communist dictatorships, the UK remained a beacon of democratic stability.
George Orwell believed the greatest buffer the British people had against authoritarianism was their innate common sense and sceptical brand of humour.
Our instinctive reaction to jumped-up demagogues, he wrote, is not to follow them but to laugh at them.
However, that doesn’t mean we are passive democrats. We trust elected politicians to serve our interests. If that trust is broken, faith in democracy is weakened.
It is then that extremists crawl out of the woodwork, hoping to
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