The far right is getting far too comfortable...

[Soph0571]

I think the author is being rather generous to the far right and their ‘genuine eschewing’ of Nazism, fascism and explicitly racial politics… I think they know that they had to move to a different strategy if they wanted greater success but that does not mean that underneath the ‘respectability’ veneer they are still not racist fuckers.

Other than that level of generosity to their current ‘belief system’ the premise behind this analysis makes sense… After all Farage is literally all over the airwaves with the election coming up. Mainstreaming far right nasty day after day. As Tommy Robison said in 2018 while addressing a crowd of thousands in London… ‘We couldn’t have done this 3 years ago. We couldn’t have done this 4 years ago. We’re now mainstream. The public support us’

If we get Boris on Thursday they are going to be further emboldened. Oh goody!!

[abqtommy]

1. I disagree with the comment in the op that the Brit Right Wing has "...eschewed Nazism,

fascism and explicitly racial politics..." It sure looks like that lot to me, and glad of it since we well know how to fight it!

[Soph0571]

2. Me too I think the author was being far to generous about their motivations nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. I agree that's too generous

While explicit 'Nazism' and fascism, with uniforms, explicit glorification of the state as a racial entity, blaming of Jews etc. may have gone, the racist and anti-immigrant (wider than Islamophobic) attitudes are still there. I see people who are 'concerned' about "white replacement", "British whites" not being the majority at some point in the UK (even if it'll be by the time that 'non-whites' are 5th or 6th generation since immigration - their skin colour will never allow them to be truly British, as far as this attitude is concerned), and groups like the Roma (and that's often more than 'concern' - it can be open disdain or hatred). Call such an attitude 'racist', and they'll act deeply offended. But that doesn't mean it isn't.