Britain's high-minded government

摘要

Look around the democratic world, and it would be easy to conclude that voters are very angry indeed. In country after country, political leaders seem intent on singling out scapegoats, and stoking the fires of resentment against them.rnIn France an unpopular government has spent the summer clearing camps of foreign-born gypsies with the maximum fuss (never mind that, as European Union citizens, most can swiftly return). In Australia the opposition leader, Tony Abbott, fought the incumbent Labor Party to a draw in elections on August 21st, in part by talking up the problem posed by asylum seekers who arrive by sea and vowing at every turn to "stop the boats".