These, then, are the internal enemies of the British state: those who challenge multiculturalism as a concept, those who recognise that the English are an ethnic group, and those who know the true history of these isles. This fear of resurgent English nationalism is particularly perverse and evil. For the British imperial state, in its final form, now considers its own primary nation-forming ethnos and religion to be such a threat to the multicultural project that it is denying their very existence.