Don’t underestimate Faragism this election. He’s a virus infecting UK politics
JVL Introduction
A blistering attack on Faragism and the complicity of the media in his rise and rise. Aditya Chakrabortty is in fine form!
“At its root, Faragism is a project to take this country further and further to the right. And from Brexit through to Suella Braverman, it has worked. Its most devoted support in this project has been the media, which sees leaving the EU or denying care system migrant workers as essential and easy tasks, while taxing the rich or investing in public services are swivel-eyed Marxism. Such an argument cannot be appeased or compromised with. It needs to be countered, disproved with facts and its progenitors shown as the cosseted chancers they are. Yet it is a feature of Westminster politics that there is no institution willing or able to make that case.”
RK
This article was originally published by the Guardian on Thu 6 Jun 2024. Read the original here.
Don’t underestimate Faragism this election. He’s a virus infecting UK politics
It’s no wonder Nigel achieves such cut-through when the media panders to him and mainstream politicians say little of note
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It isn’t only Farage…it is Sunak, Starmer, and the rest of the bought and paid for scumbag MPs.
Let’s be honest: there have been fascists in the UK for at least a century. Griffin and Tyndal and co. didn’t quite understand that a different tone was required in the PR-savvy post-war twentieth century. They also insisted that these brown and black people they didn’t like were part of a Jewish plot to encourage miscegenation as a means to weaken the “white race”- a bad move which linked them with black-and-white war films about the Nazis.
Current and future fascists will arrive in smart suits and white shirts, not black. They will court a generally compliant media world who will run stories about blokish chaps who enjoy a pint, are proud to be British (in reality deriving from the imperial history of Britain a status they feel they lack but deserve), know next to nothing about Islam but know all about Muslims, who have become the current target group.
In the face of labour shortages in various industries and trades, they will insist that the cure (for everything) is to prevent immigration. They will be bitter that Brexit didn’t create the whiter Britain that they crave.
And where will Labour be? Who knows what the Akehursts and Van Der Zyls have in mind to answer that?