Scottty
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@Vorpal although we can say that race relations in Britain are objectively speaking not as bad as in the US (fairly low bar, if you ask me), it would be a lie to say that there is no bad here at all. One can see a shift away from absolute commitment to demilitarised police organised on Peelian principles and towards more powerful and unrestricted state security services as the nonwhite and non-Christian population in Britain has rising since the end of World War II, and I don't think it's impossible to imagine an explanation for why the white voter here allowed, or wanted, that shift to happen.
Here I need to stop you - I question whether that "white voter" actually has any real say in either of the things you mention.
And the thing you complain of - the police force becoming less "Peelian" and more like the enforcer class of an authoritarian state, correlates with another trend in the modern world: that of government becoming less and less responsive or accountable to the ordinary citizens.
Once upon a time, nations were governed by laws. Laws which set limits on the actions of the government itself, as much as on the governed. Laws which were made or amended in a public process in an official legislature made up of democratically elected representatives of the people. Everything was debated and voted on, and who argued for what was a matter of public record. And the laws that prohibited you from doing certain things also protected you from having other people do those things to you. Once upon a time.
Now? States are increasingly ruled by regulations. Detailed rules made not by any parliament, but by un-elected faceless bureaucrats, who are generally not held accountable for anything.
And they won't even tell you what all of the regulations are, either - just wait and pounce on you if you unknowingly break any of them. But only if they want to. The regulations do not apply to everyone, after all. Especially not to the Important People.
Oh, they still keep Parliament around, of course. Along with the Royal Family. But that's not where any real decisions are made. Want to tell me I'm wrong about this?
Increasing immigration from the rest of the Commonwealth, and hostility to this from part of the native population? I think that's a distraction from the real issues here.