Here in London the adherents of New Labour under the boyish Prime Minister Tony Blair seem intent on cultivating values that divide. Steadily under Blair's policy of devolving power to the United Kingdom's regions, the country is coming apart. Scotland is drifting away. New Labour's itch to decouple the hereditary peers of the House of Lords is causing social devolution, and the social devolution goes beyond class warfare. As New Labour is essentially a congeries of Brits adhering to the enthusiasms of American Liberals, New Labour sets group against group.
Government policies divide women against men.
They encourage the separation of homosexuals from heterosexuals. And of course all the racial and ethnic groups that have arrived in the country in recent generations are encouraged to identify themselves and compete for government's goodies. In Kazakhstan, a country with a tragic history, diverse peoples are attempting to come together and form a nation. In Britain, a country with a relatively happy history, Liberalism is dividing the nation into competing factions and attempting to expurgate its history. That is Liberalism revealing its essential animating principle, namely, to disturb the peace.