Comments by "Michael RCH" (@michaelrch) on "Ed Husain: 'If Muslims don't like it in the UK, they should leave'" video.

17:15 is "individualism" a core part of being British?! Only in your view of Britain pal. What about the Chartists, the unions and the labour movement, the many many movements in the history of this country that fought against and atomised and individualistic view of society? Thatcherism didn't erase all that, however much you wish it had.
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Not surprising that Ed Hussein doesn't want to talk about any identity based on class and class solidarity. Also he carries on the hilarious notion that "British identity" is about "ideals and values". Give it a rest. This is pure propaganda. If the state had ideals and values it wouldn't be selling arms to Saudis to bomb kids in Palestine and Yemen. The state has powerful interests to protect. "Ideals and values" are window dressing.
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@johndavebobtim5049 I love the bit where he says "we don't want to talk about the Tudors or the Reformation". Hilarious given the school history curriculum talks about little else. What the British REALLY don't like to talk about is colonialism, slavery, the destruction of other countries while we stripped them of their wealth and people and the countless massacres committed by the British empire over centuries in order to suck wealth and power to the U.K.. Perhaps we should be actually teaching our kids exactly HOW the U.K. became so powerful and on whose death and suffering that power was built. Perhaps we should be teaching kids about the tens of millions that the British killed in India due to famines which the British created by shipping food out of India while Indians starved to death. The human rights abuses that the empire committed over its history dwarf anything committed by any other country in history. If people really understood this, it might give some more of them pause when acting like the U.K. is rich because it's just "better" somehow. No, the U.K. is rich because it used its advantages to pillage and enslave large parts of what we now call "developing nations". If we hadn't done that, those countries would look completely different today.
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@FatAlan_ Really?! It's one part of one intellectual tradition in the west but it's by no means the only one. The fact that neoliberalism has driven an agenda of individualism and an atomised society over the last 4 decades does not erase the history of collectivist movements of solidarity that came before, and not just the political ones I mentioned. Many religious traditions have ideas of community and mutual support at their core. Some of use can see past the narrow ideology of Thatcherism.
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@LvtLoshi Evidence of that please?
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