| Farage is a far right loon 08:18 - Jun 22 with 20893 views | Herbivore |
Stating the obvious, I know, but there's been a few people on here who have scoffed at the idea that Farage is far right so it's worth restating. The takeaways from his interview last night are here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cldd44zv3kpo
The line about protecting our culture, values, and identity from migrants - very much suggesting they are a threat to our way out of life - is straight out of the 1920s and 30s fascist playbook. It's also boll0cks. What Farage considers to be our culture, values, and identity looks very different from what most Brits would consider to be our values, culture, and identity.
He explained why he said he admired Putin, and it's basically because Putin has successfully seized power and become a de facto dictator. That's right, he thinks being a dictator makes someone an admirable politician. He admires the political savvy of someone whose political opponents end up dead or in jail.
Related to the above, he's parroted Putin's defence for invading Ukraine. He will happily side with authoritarian leaders he sympathises with overseas over his own country and its allies. Anyone who thinks this guy wouldn't have had a swastika up in his living room in the 1930s is kidding themselves.
Then there's the climate denialism, the disavowal of any responsibility for his party attracting candidates who are openly racist, supporting candidates who have said openly racist things (including some rank antisemitism in the last day or so).
He's a vile scumbag with very dangerous views that he barely masks beneath a veneer of being an 'old school' Englishman who just loves a pint and a joke about darkies and poofs, and where's the harm in that? The harm is all around us from the last time this grifter was given a platform over and over again despite being a liar and unfit for public life. Now we're giving him oxygen to play to people's base fears and prejudices all over again. [Post edited 22 Jun 2024 8:27]
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| Farage is a far right loon on 14:15 - Jun 23 with 543 views | Freddies_Ears |
| Farage is a far right loon on 15:13 - Jun 22 by lowhouseblue |
absolutely. students bring income - and if they stay post graduation they're very productive. students don't however necessarily explain the very high recent level of NET migration. the point is that the mix of migrants has changed post-brexit and the most productive groups in terms of age, qualifications and reason for coming are a smaller proportion than pre-brexit. young highly educated eu migrants who came to earn more than they could at home were economic gold dust. |
And, post-Brexit, it is now harder to leave this ruddy country. Not just younger people wanting to work abroad, but oldies like me, who were contemplating retirement in France... |  | | |
| Farage is a far right loon on 14:36 - Jun 23 with 497 views | Whos_blue |
| Farage is a far right loon on 13:56 - Jun 23 by ElephantintheRoom |
Interesting take on the man of the people that i must have missed in the reform manifesto
It was a posh boy that brought in a hostile environment for immigrants 14 years ago that might better fit your reasoning…. Supported at the time by the Lib Dem’s. Mind you it was Labour who saw nothing wrong in putting holocaust survivors behind barbed wire and watch towers in camps in Cyprus after the war. |
An unpleasant footnote in our history that's for sure and as you correctly mention, this was put in place by the post war Labour government.
The process was put in place to prevent mass Jewish migration into Palestine.
It's not possible to provide any context that makes that process ok, but probably important to try and understand why it happened, terrible as it was. |  |
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