As I trawl for second-hand books, I overhear an animated conversation between two volunteers working in a charity shop. On the walls pictures of Eastern European children and printed words of woe. On the shelf above them, gypsy craft is on sale. The volunteers are two elderly women. Their hair is white, but their talk is dark. "...six kids, a council house and they don't even work". I missed the ethnic group under attack. Could have been any of the many (immigrants). The other could not agree more, in a discourse made common across the European Union. And then there is wonder that the extreme right extends its base.