A blunt rejection of racism and prejudice, ‘England’s Dreaming’ was released as the British National Party gained support on the back of a recession. As an indie band comprised mainly of British Asians, Cornershop called out the wistful nostalgia for a lost England that infused the period and the genre, alluding to a recent controversy surrounding Morrissey’s waving the Union Flag (a gesture as reactionary as the ex-Smiths singer’s paeans to unrequited love and social isolation had once been liberatory).