I don't think the law & order rhetoric and especially the anti-immigration rhetoric we're getting over here is really socially conservative.
I tend to think that it is (up to a point) in the U.K, mainly because the last time there was a lot of it (early '70's) was effectively a backlash to the percieved (and IMO innacurate; 20 million people watched the
Black and White Minstels every week in the '60's...) liberalism of the '60's.
Very true. We'll only find that out for sure on friday morning, but I have a suspicion that while a lot of socially conservative people have liked the vicious attacks on immigrants, a lot of others have been appalled by it. Have to wait... oh... 48 hours or so to find out though.
Very true, but the thing is, it wasn't
seen like that by the rest of the world.