English in politics

When someone uses a certain style of English it can reveal their attitude to politics - to the political system, and it might also reveal the attitude of the political system.

This seems to be the case when a poster on the `British democracy forum’, a British political forum, was discussing a meeting which was organised by the British National Party (BNP), a right wing political party.
Explaining that local police officers and officials from the local Council (local government officials) had appeared at the meeting, he said that they were `their’ local police officers and Council officials.
It’s clear in his post that `their’ refers to the government – that in his view the police and local government officials are the government’s police and local government officials.
This is noticably different from the way that many people would describe the police and local government – they might describe them as our police and local government officials.
It’s pretty clear that this person feels alienated from the police, local government and the central government. Whether they really aren’t his police, local government and central government is a matter of opinion.
I don’t plan to go any further into this. If is to be debated it should probably be debated in a political blog or on a political forum.
I prefer VisaUK to be non-political - non-politically-aligned.