If you deny a nation democracy and subject it to uncontrolled mass immigration it leads to a rise in nationalism.
That's the shock findings of Searchlight's poll trailed in the Observer:
Huge numbers of Britons would support an anti-immigration English nationalist party if it was not associated with violence and fascist imagery, according to the largest survey into identity and extremism conducted in the UK.
A Populus poll found that 48% of the population would consider supporting a new anti-immigration party committed to challenging Islamist extremism, and would support policies to make it statutory for all public buildings to fly the flag of St George or the union flag.
Anti-racism campaigners said the findings suggested Britain's mainstream parties were losing touch with public opinion on issues of identity and race.
As O'Neill points out, that first sentence should probably read ""Huge numbers of English would support an anti-immigration English nationalist party". But as Searchlight's Executive Summary flits incomprehensibly between British and English with unerring ease, it's probably, for once, unfair to blame the Observer.
There is popular support for a sanitised, non-violent and non-racist English nationalist political party. Britain has not experienced the successful far right parties that have swept across much of Western Europe. Our report shows this is not because British people are more moderate but simply because these views have not found a political articulation.
Reading the Mail's take on the Searchlight report it would appear that calling yourself English rather than British marks you out as far-right. And conveniently the desire for an English parliament is lumped in with other similarly politically incorrect views.
Mr Cruddas, who fought a successful campaign against the BNP in his Dagenham and Rainham constituency in east London, told The Observer that the findings pointed to a ‘very real threat of a new potent political constituency built around an assertive English nationalism’.
The report identified a resurgence of English identity, with 39 per cent preferring to call themselves English rather than British. Just 5 per cent labelled themselves European.
In one of the most revealing questions, pollsters Populus asked people if they would back a party that ‘wants to defend the English, create an English parliament, control immigration and challenge Islamic extremism’.
The full report will be available here, I hope it makes more sense than the Executive Summary and trailed coverage.