It's the same principle. It would be removing rights from the minority in a way that changed the polity. (View Post)

There's an unstated assumption that the bad guys against whom you need to be on your guard are members of your own in-group, and if only you can prevent them from gaining power, nothing will disturb … (View Post)

The Lib Dems are underestimated as a vehicle for nativism. If this becomes an issue in Tory/Lib Dem marginals they could outflank the Tories on the right. (View Post)

We should be proud of taking an arbitrary characteristic like skin colour and using it as the basis of producing targets for locking people up in the correct proportions? (View Post)

Quite. It would be preferable for him to exercise his own authority to maintain order rather than invoke some sinister legalese. (View Post)