Quote: Tim Walker @ October 22 2009, 10:08 PM BSTThe best thing about this country has always been that you're welcome to hold any beliefs you want - however crazy, outlandish or, indeed, sensible they might be. However the vast majority of British people are either rather embarrassed or will simply laugh at you when you appear to be too serious in your beliefs.
Traditionally this is why extremist ideologies and religious views have never gained a major foot-hold in Britain.
I find extreme left-wingers as tedious as extreme right-wingers. Extreme Muslims are laughable as extreme atheists.
The British people by and large don't like too many ideas. This is a good thing, because too many ideas leads to ideologies. And ideologies pretty much always end up in disaster, e.g. Nationalist Socialism.
This.