Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Those things simply aren't equivalent. And the only thing that actually 'stoked the anti-immigrant fire' was the level of immigration that took place between 1997 and 2011 and the nature of many of those immigrants. Le Pen, BNP, etc are symptoms, not the disease.
The only thing? Come on..... there was that massive ****ing global economic crash thing what happened. Nothing like an economic collapse to make people look a little more keenly for scapegoats....

Then there was the whole radical islamic terrorism thing.