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It is almost always the case, when dealing in the rhetoric of hatred and division, that each popular slogan is a cynically finessed evolution of an altogether nastier one.
The idea that ‘freedom of speech’ somehow equates with a freedom to spout undiluted, often inflammatory nonsense without being contradicted or called out is currently more popular on both sides of the Atlantic than at any other point in living memory.
When I started the job in 2004, it was single mothers who bore the brunt of the blame for society’s ills. Shortly afterwards, it was welfare claimants, and only relatively recently did Schrödinger’s immigrant – the one who simultaneously steals ‘our’ jobs and claims unemployment benefit while leading a life of state-subsidised indolence – assume pole position on the starting grid of public contempt.
