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Who still remembers the riots which swept through English towns in August?

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David Cameron’s coalition government launched no inquiry into the causes of the August riots.

But there was concern among the educated middle classes, the Guardian set up its own social research project.

The August riots have deep roots in the dispossession of the white working class in England .

The white majority working class believe migrants are lavished with the largesse of the state.

Tommy Robinson and his brand of pro-Christian , anti-Muslim , working-class politics will continue to build support in the housing estates of England .

Labour, like the Conservative Party , lacks a diagnosis of the national malaise and so does not know how to resolve it.

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