England has been captured by far-right think-tanks, dressed up in nice suits and dresses. There are pockets of resistence within the ruling party, but that doesn't change the last 10 years of madness.
If you are unaware of this, your personal Overton window is all over the place. I'd get that checked out at the local mechanics.
What are the top three most far-right policies the UK government is now pursuing since it was captured by these think tanks?
Hell, the whole “not letting anyone in just because they claim to be a refugee” aspect was normal in Europe…10 years ago?
You mean rightwards, right? Otherwise we don’t live in the same reality. Even Labour is tame compared to what it was 30 years ago.
> Not being beholden to the EU and controlling your borders was perfectly normal 30 years ago.
The problem with Brexit is not the control of the borders, it’s the whole nationalist bullshit that goes with it (and the fact that it’s completely unrealistic). 40 years ago Thatcher was commuting the country to thriving in the single market. And she was as right wing as it comes, and the political mainstream of the day. 30 years ago it was Major.
> Hell, the whole “not letting anyone in just because they claim to be a refugee” aspect was normal in Europe…10 years ago?
No, not really. If you are British, your perspective might be a bit skewed, but there were discussions about refugees waves regularly after the Viêt Nam war or the Armenian genocide, for example, certainly no consensus to deport them to a third world country. The only example of fortified borders in Europe from that era was the iron curtain.
What? 30 years ago was the 1990's. The era of Blair and Brown.
Try and be historically honest, please.
And before that was John Smith. Pro-European and further to the left than the more centrist Blair.
Again, please be historically accurate.
You're not just insulting my intelligence and memory, but the legacy of truth of dead men.
Thank you.
Some in government intend the UK to have no tariffs whatsoever.
And want to solve everything with austerity.
As far as I can tell, anything remotely right wing is now 'Far right' amongst a growing band of idiotic and insufferable liberal moralisers, so the moniker has effectively lost all meaning.
It's a lost cause us discussing this. I think if you describe how the UK has been governed in the last 10 years as 'far right', you're an idealogue and completely irrational. You're convinced I'm blissfully ignorant with an unintentionally warped political compass, or I'm a crypto right-winger. Oh well.
Ascribing defintions to yourself that you think I have, or might, call you, in anticipation, is where we're at.
As someone else said. Our current ruling party (or a section of it, considering the internal war going on) are pushing polices that were not out of place (and actually, in terms of the Rwanda nonsense) beyond where the BNP and National Front were 40 years ago, which I think we can agree were 'the far right'.
Again, if you're unwilling to acknowledge this, you've jumped off the logical and historical diving board into a sea of nonsense.
My condolences.