I used to dismiss fears Britain was headed for open sectarian conflict, possibly even civil war, as overblown. Those expressing such unease were, I suspected, succumbing to their own subconscious cognitive bias and exaggerating the scale of the problem.
After all, does the UK really have the ingredients for such internal strife? We live in an inefficient and messed up society, but not a “failed” one. Taxes are paid, people who want to be are employed, we have abundant food, clothing and energy – at least until Ed Miliband’s climate fanaticism catches up with us. We don’t have America’s gun problem, even if gang violence has become a feature of British life. We have, relative to other developed nations, successfully integrated migrants in large numbers.
