Originally Posted by
bunyip
Yup. Some Tory think-tank has come up with this one as a vote-winner. It's a jolly good sound-bite (like the way Cameron keeps throwing the phrase "hard-working families" into every interview) but impossible to pin down. One could have a mass-debate (fnarr, fnarr) over whether such a thing as national values exists (except maybe within mid-European dicatatorships of the 1930's-1940's.) If they do, then they are very changeable. Within my lifetime, "British values" includes hanging up signs saying "No dogs, no Irish, no blacks" in the windows of pubs and rented houses. :mad: The British Empire was built on plundering the equatorial countries for natural resources and slavery. :( Anyone remember "Victorian family values"? The only difference being this plays on some un-historic notion of British-ness and patriotism, and so is a direct appeal to all the neo-fascists they've lost to the UK Intolerence Party in the last couple of years. I suspect and hope this one may go the same way.