As I recall, the Left actually won an election in Greece in 2015, which raised the morale of leftist parties around Southern Europe. However, even after being elected, they discovered that due to the opposition of the European financial elite, they were unable to carry out their program and were forced to accept the very austerity measures that they opposed. It revealed the helplessness of the voters when they defy the financial elites.
So in a neo-liberal world, you can not achieve anything on your own when you try to promote left winged politics. It’s the same deal with climate protection. Everyone knows we need to change something, but when one country tries to, it doesn’t actually change anything, when everyone else doesn’t. So people just get frustrated even more. Which means what’s going to happen is that we probably need to destroy our societies again and built a new one based on past mistakes. Which is going to cost a lot of life’s. But that’s probably the only way to change anything. Doing it the painful way.
No. Greece had many major flaws, like a dysfunctional administration which was unable to collect taxes (especially from the rich trade ship owners), payed out pensions to dead people, handn't even got a land register (a reason for illegal layed fires). The Greek government even consulted Goldman Sachs to hide it's budget deficit to get into the Eurozone and avoid sanctions. Since the banks and investors lost trust and didn't want to buy government bons without high interest rates, the European Central Bank and the other countries of the Eurozone had to step in, in form of transferring taxpayers money, giving out loans with low interest rates and debt cuts. But these helps were massively unpopular in the rich countries which did have to pay them, actually even the far right German AfD party was founded as a protest movement against these programs. So the political leaders on the Eurozone were under pressure to go hard on Greece, not only demanding the necessary reforms the country needed, but also Austerity policy. So the main reason the left government couldn't do their program, was due to the interest of the taxpayers of the wealthy northern European countries. If you want to look at a successful attempt of a left wing policy you'd rather look at Portugal. It was also highly in debt, but there the Socialist government could convince the Eurozone to handle it's problem without applying Austerity, while at the same time delivering reforms to make the state more efficient and effective. They had a convincing plan, the Greece government on the other hand mostly populist rhetoric.
No. Greece wanted the other euro countries, like Germany, to continue to pay their bills. Greek voters have no democratic right to vote that German tax payers should fund their widening deficit. A better description is that the Greece populists simply had to face reality: long-term, you can't spend more than what you make.
It appears that we're living in a globalized second Gilded Age in which there is no shortage of Trump wannabes, but authentic center-left alternatives are scarce. The problem is that the average voter is in pain, but has no idea of what's really going on; they vote for the far-right in desperation, but that only make things worse. We need a new progressive movement and preferably a new Roosevelt as our champion.
They vote for the side that caused all their pain somehow hoping it will stop instead of giving the side trying to help them enough power to be effective.
@5353Jumper The problem for us is that it's hard to sell complex solutions to complex problems, while our opponents have learned that it's much easyy to sell fear (amygdala politics).
I like the way you think! As I watched the video, I thought, “OK, if left wing economic policy is the answer, where are the examples of successful application of those policies?” Of course, I came to the same answer you did. So why did we move away from those policies? My guess is that the very wealthy, who have a disproportionate amount of influence prefer policies that benefit them at the expense of everybody else.
@AndrewUnruh Why? Blame Nixon. He's the one who nominated Lewis F. Powell Jr for the Supreme Court, who in turn penned the majority decisions for Buckley v Valeo in 1976 and First National Bank of Boston v Bellotti in 1978. The result? Money is equal to free speech and corporations are people, thereby legalizing bribery. I suspect that also helped Reagan get elected in 1980 and I'm quite certain that it's what convinced both Clinton and Obama to embrace and continue the neoliberalism introduced by Reagan.
One thing about the left-wing. In many European countries, there has been a concerted effort by the so-called "centrist" parties to drive left-wing ideas out of what is considered "acceptable" politics. Kier Starmers Labour is a perfect example. He has expelled almost anyone with even the slightest hint of a left-wing idea from the party. While Macron is refusing to work with the left and basically showing his utter contempt for the French voters, which will only really benefit the far-right. The centrists and neoliberals see the left as more of a threat then the far-right. This is what brought the n@zis to power in 1933 and it is helping to bring a new generation of far-right into power in the 21st century.
This can be seen in the UK undercover police scandal. Going back to the 60s they were going undercover but only in left wing or activist groups. They often assumed fake identities, sometimes using the names of deceased children, and lived double lives for years. They even had children with people which they abandoned once their operations ended. Many of those they spied on were non-violent activists involved in environmental, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist movements. They weren't undercover in right wing groups. That tells you everything about the priority of every government since.
Here here, Starmer is a right wing pirate who keel hauled Corbyn and set the Corbynites adrift, left wing hasn't had a look in because the system has poisoned the very thought of having a left wing government, the rich have slandered and propagandised the left into oblivion bec6the rich are terrified of paying their fare share.
Yes, thats why you hate us. And you try to make us hate each other on the behest of your globalist elite overlords. "Far right" now encompasses almost everyone, and we are sick of being hated.
Plato warns about the danger of democracy in his book The Republic and how tyranny is very easy to transition into. The rise of the right is the symptom of mass unhappiness in the populace and should be the very thing that makes our politicians take a step backwards and rethink their policies
He warned about STUPID people having a vote... That's Democracy's Achilles heel... An informed and thoughtful populace is required for Democracy to work... So what's the solution? End Democracy? or End stupid people's ability to affect everyone with their arrogance and ignorance...
@MarkoT-xy6ep I know, Plato also stated that a government is a reflection of the people. That is a simplistic view. Nonetheless, people are voting for populists and they don't care about the people, but the people think they do. The recent killing of the CEO in America has seen the elites really worried because the right and left feel that it was payback for so many declined insurance claims that killed thousands of America people. A tipping point will come, and it may have jack boots on, or ordinary voters will finally snap
Its more that the native people of britain and europe see the invasion by 'refugee' islamics for what it really is....an invasion approved by the neo-marxist leaning governments and their sycophants in the traditional media , by people that openly despise everything about european society and everything that makes it good to live in......and then the left wonders why anyone with half a brain despises their ideas for the future of western society.
Indeed, when a wealthy elite charlatan claims to be against 'the system' & on the side of the 'people' & alarm bells don't go off, something is wrong with your snake oil detector.
The term "neoliberal" [applied here to most mainstream parties both within and outside the UK] needs some explaining. I believe neoliberalism describes the economics of Regan and Thatcher, rolled out controversially in the 1980s, which saw mass privatizations and sell-offs of major national assets such as social housing, gas, water and public trapnsport. There was also a deregulation of financial markets which culminated around 2008 in the banking crisis and ensuing economic recession. The resurgence of the Far Right [and the growth of conspiracy theories and anti-immigrant racism] has its roots in disillusionment with consensus [neoliberal] economic policies. Again, many thanks to Richard Murphy for highlighting an urgent problem.
You're 100% right - people like Hayek and Rand popularised it back in the 40s and 50s, Thatcher and Reagan embraced it and made it mainstream in the 80s. I'm not seeing anyone on the Far Right really going against this orthodoxy. They might talk about global elites being the enemy, but economically they tend to be very supportive of them, while decrying leftist socialism, Marxist, communism and 'liberalism', as well as trade unionism.
Thank you. I was obviously confused about the distinction between neo-Liberal and right wing. I never realised there was a big difference between the two positions.
I'm not sure there is a big difference between "neoliberal" and right wing - it's just that the former is an economic term for policies that favour a market driven economy. It is strongly associated with right-wing figures such as Regan and Thatcher, who were both fiercely anti trade unions and strongly individualist.
I believe it’s worth turning our attention to Mexico to examine the country’s remarkable rise under the leadership of López Obrador and now Claudia Sheinbaum. Their approach represents a balanced, people-focused left, underpinned by astute economic policies and a resolute stance against far-right ideologies. This stands in stark contrast to their northern neighbour, where a disturbing neofascist undercurrent appears to be taking shape.
UNDER AMLO: - Crime has gone up - Democracy has significantly weakened - He is absolutely terrible for the environment - Slowing economic growth - 5% spending deficit Please tell me again he's doing a goos job?!
The people leading mexico right now call their ideology mexican humanism, "the poor must come first" is one of their core ideas. They are very much post neo liberalism.
Ähm areyou talking about that one person that took important people from the Opposition party out because she has nice connections too some people? If Yes then Woooow you are really on the good side ☠️
It’s easy to say that when you’re not the one who’s needs aren’t being met. It sounds like you’re doing just fine probably at the expense of those supporting the right.
@@ggjr61 The stupidity comes in from the people supporting the right believing that the right-wing politicians will do anything to help them. They never have in the past, so why would they think they're going to do something in the future?
Its not rocket science, there is a common theme in all country's, an underlying cause which is the debt based financial system and it hollows out the fabric of society, which causes the dissatisfaction, which can then be used to fuel far right politics, wars scapegoating and so on. What does it matter what policy are put forth by a government when this feudal system is in place? It is baffling that people cant see this even now, that they are dominated by a financial elite and instead they want to talk politics.
You can only make big changes in your life and others when you got the money to do so. Money is so important that it completely nullifies any general morals people should have. So the ones that get the money to make any changes are general people that don’t care about others. If you try to get money the legal and morally correct way, it always requires a lot of work, in addition of just having luck. So you’re basically playing the lottery while others can just play with peoples life’s to become rich and powerful. Bad people apologize and promise changes, but they don’t actually mean it. They just try to benefit from others as long as possible. If big companies can influence a government to make people do what they want instead of the other way around, it’s going to get worse for society. Because the company only cares about money and not the well being of people.
Well said. I'm a lifelong Labour voter and am in absolute despair at what the Labour party is doing. I too voted for Starmer in the hope that maybe some Socialist principals would happen. I feel quite homeless at the moment although I still continue as a party member having respect for our local MP. Like you I think this rise of the far right and nationalistic populism terrifying
There is no "far-right" in any meaningful sense in politics. What does exist, is a bunch of normal people who have become alienated by how far left the Overton Window has been pushed. Take Donald Trump, he is a 1980's Democrat, but in 2016 he somehow became cheeto-Hitler.
Right??? As a 3rd generation .1%’er I was embarrassed when Trump cut corporate tax almost in half😳 We live through corporations, own virtually nothing in our own name, so the tax break was unreal. Did I hire another personal assistant, domestic, caretaker…or give raises with the extra money? Nope… Same with our public corporations. They simply bought back their own stock, which raised the share price, the wealthy enjoy the increase in net worth and the execs got their bonuses for raising the stock price. When asked, Trump said they weren’t suppose to do that🤣
Because the whole democratic system of the US is already in control of the politicians. How can a two party system be democratic? Why is it a two party system? Because the politicians do everything to keep it that way. They influence their people so they think they don’t actually have any other choices. Then they sabotage each other to create and endless circle of the other getting another chance.
Average people are not getting poorer. That's just not factual true. Incomes for the working class grew at a fast clip under Biden. He was a pro labor president, brought back manufacturing jobs and created massive infrastructure projects. The voters didn't give a shit. They preferred the demagogue that screamed about immigrants eating cats and dogs and tried to win an election with violence.
Maybe,we’ll see. When he was in office last time things were significantly better for the lower classes. For example that tax cut the left constantly calls a tax cut for the rich was also a tax cut for the working and middle class and people appreciated it. Employment for minorities was up too especially for the black community and illegal immigration was down. That in comparison to the last four years was a major reason he was re elected.
There's a Russian-American historian, Peter Turchin, who's investigated what happens with many societies over the centuries. He says the pattern is for the rich to gradually get richer, have more political power which they use to largely benefit themselves. This increases inequality until it is intolerable for those who aren't part of the rich. The masses might start voting far right. The system then resets itself, usually very painfully. I suspect we are getting to that point with neo-liberalism. I've wondered if the popularity of far right parties is a symptom of the problem, but doesn't often provide the solutions.
I don't much about the far right economic policies in Europe, but in the USA the Republicans are further up the ass of the rich and corporations than the Democrats are so voting for Republicans is only doubling down on neoliberalism.
That is a tough ask. Jeremy Corbin was politically annihilated in 2019 and he was the only MP to offer genuine change, a genuine alternative to the status quo since I was a young boy. If we are going to come up with an alternative we've got to do it soon
It is quite simple. The majority parties are committed to mass immigration, net zero and alienating the bulk of the population through aggressive social liberalism .the voters dont want this or more than 50%
I think you nailed it here: the "left" wants change to deal with problems caused by old status quo policies, the "right" promises that the status quo will work for you if we just keep to it.
Corbyn wasn't emotional enough/gut emotions. The right wing add in the visceral emotions. Left wingers are too busy padding their CV and looking 'proper' (most come for middle class+ families), so therefore, people vote for the right wing nut jobs. 'Liberals' are highly educated and ladder climbers; your local plumber isn't
I think Richard is missing something. Many people are voting for parties that claim they oppose mass immigration. It’s not just economics, culture matters too.
I’ve never understood what “culture” means despite being almost 70 and never having lived anywhere but the UK. Perhaps that’s because I’ve always been a misfit. I remember, for example, being at primary school and bringing in the things we were asked to bring in for BBC nature programmes on the radio. It was made VERY clear to me by the others that wasn’t socially acceptable. My “culture” wasn’t theirs.
When people perceive they are struggling some become easily convinced that it is the fault of minorities and foreigners, it appears to be part of human nature. Rising popularity of the far right is a red flag that the authorities (of whatever persuasion) are not (or cannot) deal with the core issues causing people to struggle. I expect it will continue until policies reduce inequality.
If foreigners are coming here by the boat load and putting pressure on our country, causing societal breakdown, then yes, the foreigners may well get the blame. We all know it''s the fault of the politicians, but they're doing their best 'not to be racist', and so the situation gets worse.
It really is. Only someone totally deluded and hateful of the native Europeans will think colonising their countries with millions and millions of third-world migrants and not making any effort to integrate them doesn't effect anything. Want to reduce inequality? Stop importing cheap labour and suppressing wages.
Nonsense. The demographic change has started to strain the societal fabric as certain cultures are simply incompatible. The europeans feel they loose control over their turf
Because the wealthy have convinced them that foreigners are the reason why they are getting poorer. It is quite easy to do as foreigners look different and can be singled out, whereas the white slave master exploiters look just as white as the poor.
My family is mixed race, I’ve seen these problems coming We need to return to people being judged based on their character and actions, regardless of which community they belong to. Tribalism. ‘Us Vs Them’ thinking is the issue across the board. Racial identity has been held up as the most important fact about people over the last decade, unless you’re white then it’s demonised. Anyone disagreeing with that over the past 10 years has been deemed racist. These facts have created more people identifying with being white (refusing to be shamed based on their race) and the voices supporting this being more extreme I.e. those who don’t care if they are called racist. It’s a perfect storm for the rise of the far right.
Do you think people on 'the right' dislike people because of their skin colour? Absolutely not, they're up in arms about immigration (wherever it's from) and knife crime (whoever it's by). They don't like the break down in our society.
This is bullshit tbh. We’ve never had a time when people were judged based on their character and actions, so we can’t ’return’ to it any more than we can go back to the future. Any negative action by a white person is an individual action, but any negative action by a non-white person is reflective of the whole of whichever demographic they belong to. Having some non-white people in your family doesn’t give any credence to your bullshit. It’s the ‘I can’t be racist, I’ve got black mates’ argument.
It's not about white or black, it's about division and divisive politics to gain power through abusing religion, politics, race or social standing ( class) India, Israel, Russia, Sudan etc are not black and white issues.
Very good point. I have never thought myself as "white european" in the first 25 years of my life. All of the sudden ethnicty and skincolor was a topic everywhere and i was basically forced to pick my tribe
if you stop and think about it, the only time things were vaguely going in the right direction for working people was in the 50's and 60's...maybe. That's 20 years of things being 'ok' in the entire history of organised labour
@@danielpye7738But the same thing is becoming less accessible for that guy. We are getting poorer every year. In 50's and 60's we vwere getting richer and richer. Now we are stagnating (as you said, we are right now fine more or less) but we won't be in near future. 35 years after WW2 the bottom 50 got 129 % richer while the top 1 got 58 % richer. From 1980 to 2014 the bottom 50 got 21 % richer and top 1 got 94 % richer and thats only percentage. If this trend continues, we will eventually stop getting any growth for low-income people as inflation will be always be bigger that the growth of bottom 50.
@@mikehunt.1609 - the unions were just trying to keep wages in line with inflation back then. It was the ruling classes that decided to put their foot down and put the commoners back in their place. Of course, since the papers were all owned by rich people, the story was told quite differently...
I thought the Australian Labor party would be a breath of fresh air after the Morrison years but it is walking a similar path. Albo should have been the left’s poster boy considering his upbringing but it’s not turning out that way.
@@danielpye7738swung centrist - Keir Starmer and the Australian Labor Party have difficulties enacting leftist policies. As I understand it, Starmer in the UK is not about to lead the Labour Party in any political risk taking. In Australia, the Greens seem to be colluding with the Coalition to wedge Labor whenever they can
Without reform of the UK's first-past-the-post voting system and some significant change in the media landscape to de-power the influence of the Sun-Daily-Torygraph, the Labour Party will need to continue to tread on eggshells on so many issues. Without those reforms, a more left leaning Labour Party would soon be out of office and all your hopes would be as dust. Voting reform has to come first.
I agree the media have way too much influence along with other sectors of society. I would argue that Corbyn has been the most successful politician in recent years and with the most left wing policies, why? because it gave people hope and the Labour Party became the largest political party in Europe but this was not acceptable to many of the establishment and so he had to be brought down. Then, Cameron had to go into coalition with the Lib Dems to form a government and May had to coerce the DUP to support her so that she could form a government, hardly overwhelming victories, so I think, if the media can be effectively dealt with, the Left would be popular in this country and give people what they are hoping to get from the far right.
As an Australian, I've noticed that countries that have a Murdoch dominated press have fallen for this neo-liberalism and now far-right agenda. Both our Liberal/National party and Labor party are seemingly working for the big corporates and the super wealthy. Many of these politicians after leaving parliament get employed by the very corporations that they were lobbied by whilst ministers and often the people that they previously opposed.
@@edbennett2 yes, I agree. The EU stopped Murdoch from taking over more media outside UK, he then started his campaign to weaken the EU. Brexit was his biggest success. Look up the role media mogul Hugenberg played in the rise of the Nazi party and bringing Hitler into office in Germany 1933.
@@LowPlainsDrifter60 That was what the sign said in the main pavilion at Jonestown. Seriously. That Santayana quote was given an exalted position by Jim Jones, for reasons that I don't think we know.
That's the world we are living in: neoliberale (or, in Europe, even liberal) has nothing to do with liberal, social democratic parties are not social democratic anymore, gas and nuclear power are called 'sustainable', the Republicans are about to turn the country into a oligarchy...
The generation that had to risk it all to stop far right extremism in the late thirties and early forties has now houred out and there is no living memory of where extremism leads.
I want everyone back in good well-paying jobs that create real value so that I can tax the bejasus out of them to pay for the drains and the streetlighting and roads and GPs and dentists and hospitals and schools and soldiers and sailors and airmen with proper kit. I've nothing against businessmen turning a profit as long as shareholders don't come before citizens.
@@davidharris3264 With a vested interest to oppose the best interests of all the other citizens, who aren't shareholders. Some citizens are more equal than others.
In the anglo world shareholders come first - there are no other stakeholders recognised. A CEO who doesnt maximise profit can be sued and / or removed.
Wanting to reverse mass immigration and to deport foreign criminals regardless of if they have been given the right to stay does not make a person far right. I say that as a former Labour Party member and Jeremy Corbyn supporter. I consider the support of mass immigration to be a neoliberal/globalist aim of which I am neither.
It's a sort of neo colonialism. Invite all the servants here to work on low pay (black economy) so you can have working from your (nice) home 4 days a week while ordering food and stuff whenever you like. A whole new underclass on your doorstep. Obviously these don't really count a unionised working class - is it any wonder that this business model came out of California. So those who lose out are the low paid who have to pay tax and work multiple jobs. These people then find common cause with the "far right". Nigel farage is very wealthy but can "read the room".
That's one bizarre thing: in the US the Republicans blocked strict immigration rules, because that's what they were going to run their campaigns on. And generally, far right parties tend to run on anti-immigration, because it will get them votes, but they are not really interested in reducing the low-wage sector, because the people who are financing them make their money, exploiting underpaid people.
Left v right has always been bullshit. Fascism was not a new idea - just a collection of pre-existing ideas, mostly from the left. Same with Nazism - even genocide of the Jews, in modern ideology, first appears in mid 19th century French socialism. Sadly, the left has been entranced by postmodern ideas that allow it to 'deconstruct' all other positions, but won't take the post mod tool to their own precious ideas - which remain essential and unchallenged. I have no idea how gullible intellectuals have to be to not see how stupid and cynical this is.
The fundamental problem is the Political Party system itself. That inevitably leads to division, conflict and gross mismanagement. That system has been abused by the wealthy, who also own and run much of the media. Having some radical ideas myself, I know just how difficult it can be to get my voice heard.
I listened to your video after it appeared on my feed. I agreed and instantly subscribed. Good luck in all your endeavors. Kind regards from Iceland 💜💛💜💜
People also need to understand that neoliberalism hasn’t failed. It’s working and delivering as intended, for the ruling classes and neoliberals. All this that you’re angry with is intended.
All the people here who continue to vote Labour despite everything we’ve seen since Blair jumped into bed with Bush have been fantasising with no basis. Here in the UK, the Green Party has offered genuinely radical alternatives for decades but a) The main parties have never offered us PR to allow any real alternative to take hold b) The billionaire owned media keep the majority either in ignorance and/or distracted with irrelevant trash. Presenting any alternatives in such an environment is a seriously uphill struggle.
Such irony in some of the comments on here - how much of the immigration into the UK is a result of Western foreign policies, made by neoliberal governments? People are leaving their beloved homelands because of war, frequently involving the US and its allies, such as the UK, and also as a result of colonialism. How many Gaza people would choose to come here to escape persecution by the Israeli government if they could? We have helped to fuel that crisis. That's just one example, but there are many, such as Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, ...
You seem keen to dismiss immigration as a cause of this situation, but I would argue that it is one of the biggest issues that Europeans are worried about. You may want to paint those concerns as racist, but they are real, and they are not going away. Ironically, this issue is inextricably linked to the concerns which you DO address in your video - the only reason mass immigration is allowed is because it provides the ruling classes with an endless supply of cheap labour, and they can keep increasing their profit margins, while keeping all our wages down. I don't bear any malice towards immigrants - they are being exploited as much as we are - but their presence in such numbers is a very visible symptom of the larger problem of neoliberalism. Remember that the vast majority of the British public aren't students of politics nor economics - they vote according to their everyday lives and everyday needs, and will respond positively to anyone who tells them what they want to hear. Since it has become apparent that NONE of our political parties have any intention of following through with their election manifesto promises, how do people choose who to vote for? It is this situation that allows for chancers like Farage to come along and bulls*** his way into parliament, and the same across Europe.
In 15 years the British will be a minority in England. In 25 years the British will be a minority in Britain. The true Fascists are the one-party LibLabCon who exist to provide a mixture of socialism/big business, to stop any alternative party getting in their way. Their policy is to exterminate the British people.
Yes, but it's not the cause of widening inequality...that is due to the economic and political system that works for the rich and against everyone else. Migration is used to scare folk into voting for what the rich want
I tend to agree. In the EU, the far right began to gain grounds after Merkel's welcoming policies to huge numbers of asylum seekers without a clear and structured way to do so, agreed by all EU members.
This argument is based on experience of the Second World War when poverty sent people looking for a new alternative and looking for scapegoats. In this case the economy and living standards are significant part but it’s also about cultural differences. I‘m British and live in Germany where my daughter sits in a class with 50% Muslims who are taught from the Koran that they shouldn’t mix with non Muslims. They speak Arabic in class and the teacher has to tell them to speak German because the other half don’t know what’s going on. We were all naive and ignorant of this religion and culture and optimistic they would somehow become European. They don’t. It’s like oil and water. You can’t make people integrate when their religion tells them not to. It’s a problem that everyone suffers from and politicians ignore. Till they change something people will grab onto anyone who listens. That’s the traditional parties in Europe that caused this, Germany, Sweden, France, Ireland etc. I love diversity but if it continues like this then there will be no lovely diverse cultures in Europe anymore, just the remnants. We like our European democracies and life and don’t want to live in fear of Islam. So fear and survival is the main reason. It’s the wrong solution because it’s trading islamo fascism for Ethnic European neo fascism. The Centre parties have to stand by their own people but they are too self interested and serving their rich.
I hear you. What you say about them is true. I think that the choice which we all will have to face is that we do something about the problem. I can only see three ways in which the future of Europe (including the UK) could possibly proceed. Firstly by voting in any party which will solve the problem and currently that means the right (parties like the AfD), because the left always only pretend to care about the people , bicker constantly whilst never achieving anything and are really only interested in their own power. Or religious civil war will engulf the entirety of Europe, which would be horrific. Last and by far the worst is that we will suffer the fate of the Middle East and Europe will become Islamic. I'm voting for ANYONE who will fix the immigration problem and I suggest that you do too. ❤️🇩🇪 Good luck. 🇬🇧
Any fundamental religious belief includes segregation of it's adherents from non-believers, doesn't it? Why have you singled out Islam, and used the phrase 'Islamo Fascism'? It sounds like you are repeating some Islamophobic rhetoric. Maybe you should talk to some of the parents of the children at your daughter's school. Why do you find it strange that children would speak in their first language? Most Muslims in the world are not fundamentalists, and enjoy life just like everyone else. Europe is in need of inward migration due to the ageing population. Why do you think that the people in 'developed' countries have not been reproducing at replacement rate for decades? Do you think it might have something to do with the neoliberalism that Murphy references in this video?
@@MartinLewisEsq if you take some time to learn about the Koran, then you can make your own informed opinion. I’ve done this and made mine. Kids should not be speaking another language in a classroom when the other half of the class doesn’t know what they’re saying nor the teacher. Do you not agree? As far as needing to boost population is concerned, first of all a lot have remained a drain on economies by not learning the language and working. In Islam, very often the women are forbidden from working. Secondly, they will eventually need health services, especially as they age and will draw pensions. They will by the next generation produce less children and become like the native population in reproductive terms. The evidence for that comes from the fact that depopulation is global and ever decreasing.The term islamofascism comes from the fact that they share many similarities to classical fascism in their beliefs, but take it even further. The end times for example cannot happen till all Jews, Christians, (and atheists), have all been killed. The aim of Islam is to conquer globally. Find some ex Muslims UA-camrs and find out some things for yourself. Of course there are decent Muslims, it’s their ideology which is problematic, not individuals.
@@scarba I have enough knowledge about the Koran to make an informed opinion. All religious extremism is exclusive, look at the Orthodox Jewish areas of London for an extreme example of exclusivity. Why are you suggesting that Islam is a religion that doesn't integrate well with other belief systems when there is plenty of historic evidence that Islamic cultures are very tolerant and welcoming? If you are concerned about children talking one language or another maybe you should start an after school club to help the children?
When the riches 1% absorb 99% of the wealth you get misery as people struggle to survive so they cling to anything that will deal with the wealth hoarders, governments and the greedy rich are solely to blame.
The rise of populist parties and the shift of centre politics to the right, is entirely due to the failings of the established parties. Fix them and start governing for the people and not the WEF and the electorate may return.
Interestingly, what do you think about the Bündnis Sarah Wagenknecht (BSW). In her book (Die Selbstgerechten) Sarah Wagenknecht discribed the same problems. That book was heavily discussed in germany.
Discontent often results in the switch from left to right, or right to left, nothing really get done, if left or right, money is wasted, and poor gets poorer. Politics only benefits the elites.
But 'the right' isn't just about opposing what you call 'mass' immigration. They're also about cutting services and letting asset wealth off the leash. Both these things will dramatically and negatively affect even those who are financially stable and will do even more damage to those who are not. So poverty is a valid argument and not just poverty in monetary terms. Poverty of ideas (sponsored by successive neoliberal governments in the UK for example) and poverty of voices assured by having the 'right people' in charge of much of our media.
@@PortilloMoment Simply not true in reality. The right wants to stop our reliance on services, release people from the suffocating devouring mother that is the state. For those that truly need the support support will always be their. The right wants freedom from tyranny, but with that freedom comes responsibility. You should be responsible in your decisions only have the number of children you can support, only acquire habits your efforts can afford.
@@PortilloMomentfar right is the republicans party eg let the poor die. Burt nationsit parties labelled far right eg EDL, BNP, SD, LE PEN are nearly all left wing.
The far right isn’t really winning. These far right parties are actually center right. It’s just your conservative parties in Europe are center-left. Being anti-immigration is a normal center-right position. Far right is characterized by wanting a dictatorship or monarchy and aristocracy and traditionalism and patriarchy and wanting to return to feudalism or empire or slavery.
The financial markets have real power to upset things. Witness the shambles of Liz Truss' economic policies which weren't liked by the financial markets, and also the UK's disastrous exit from the ERM in 1992 ("Black Friday"). It's not a wonder that the current government wants to avoid this
Corbyn wasn’t “Left-of-centre” (by which I assume you meant moderate/soft Left). He was trad Left, much closer to Labour’s true core and to Socialism than any Labour leader in many decades. (I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, but it’s the main reason they had to kneecap him, though he didn’t always help his own case sometimes).
@@akastewart His ideas were traditional Labour, which in a nedliberal world were too revolutionary. There was no-one else (brave enough) to stand up for the ideas and principles he espoused. He was a poor standard bearer, but he was all there was. Even with all the vilification and his own weaknesses he almost carried the way...Until the Labour. right wing deliberately sabotaged him. They should all be drummed out of the party. Disgraceful. IF there had been a more charistmatic Leader, they would have won.
@@gerrardcorner6199 I agree. Being left-leaning, I would prefer a true centre-Left gov. Corbyn a little too trad-Trad left for my personal politics, but it would be good to have those views present (in somewhat larger numbers) in parliament, in an influential opposition. The value of someone like Corbyn (when Labour leader) was to keep those possibilities on the table, and to balance out the Right, to some extent. I’m slightly more left-leaning when it comes to things like unions and nationalising water, energy and rail (though not post). I consider him stronger as campaigner than as a politician. It will be interesting to see how his new ‘coalition of independents’ develops.
Why is it so hard to secure the means of production under the control of the regular person? We are returning to the dark ages in which wealth was handed down from eldest son to eldest son and then eldest sons fought each other and captured their wealth. It wasn’t a good idea then and it’s not a good idea now.
New subscriber here Richard. I like your clarity and look forward to seeing more of your content. My view is simple: we desperately need a media that speaks the truth, especially about parties like Reform. Reform echoes the methodologies adopted by National Socialist Democratic Party to entice disheartened German people in the 1930s. For those who cry “oh not that argument again!”, do some research . . .
@PlutoPhobia-qg6wnfar left are communists, socialists, almost all establishments and elites in Europe. For example Labour, Lib-Dem and Greens are far left.
If you are xenophobic, militaristic and believe in strong leaders then you are far-right. Just take stock and own up to what you are. The combat-18 tattoo might be a giveaway too.
In the US all us non government workers have been forced into the stock market with our pensions. People now will vote for the stock market out of concern for their financial interests.
Hmmm Here the RW complains, spreading misinformation and hate. They never provide any solution! Btw Our German AfD is massively supported by Ruzzia. Trollfarms, money, campaigns, knowledge ...
@@Hiltok Indeed. Answers that are not solutions is the go-to of most politicians in my experience. It just depends on what form of unpleasantness one wishes to vote for, or against.
Because as soon as that subject is broached it becomes blatantly obvious that the left are wedded to it and their whole styk about standing for the working class is exposed as the lie it has always been. The left depends on a constituency of serfs and if the working class won’t serf the left will import third worlders who will
Probably, because that's what mainstream media (and politicians) keep abusing to distract from the actual problem: corruption / lobbyism which has lead to widen the gap between the rich and the poor for decades. Instead of doing something about it, blaming minorities has been the fascist trick, which has always worked.
The answer to your question is that the "far right" merely means: "I am European and do not want to colonised and replaced in my own ancient tribal lands." Simple and natural really.
@Minimmalmythicistit pretty much feels the same. If someone woke up from a 50 year coma, they would think there'd been a war and we lost. Regardless of whether you love or hate the transformation the fact is that it happened.
@Minimmalmythicistreally? So if someone woke up in the middle of Leicester after 50 years, looked out the window and saw a 90% demographic difference what would a person think had happened?
Several triggers. A shocking rise in violent crime, disproportionately carried out by immigrants, many of whom arrived illegally. Governments unwilling to stem unrestricted immigration. People are fed up with diminution of freedom of speech. My family is mixed-race, and we think the way things are going are extremely bad for race relations generally. And by the way, arguing in favour of dramatically reducing immigration and taking action to reduce crime does not make someone a ‘far-right fascist’.
@@fburton8 EU POLITICO: "While foreigners make up about 15 percent of Germany's population, they accounted for a record 41 percent of all crimes in 2023. Crime that authorities attributed to foreign suspects rose by 23 percent in 2022 and by 18 percent in 2023, according to government statistics."
@@fburton8So you are not happy with the German data so you want others to research for you until they find data that you like? ONS 2024: - Foreign nationals made up 12% of the prison population, and - People of minority ethnicities made up 27% of the prison population compared with 18% of the general population.
How is properly taxing billionaires and multinational corporations properly or at all, so impossible? How is cleaning up and mobilising the unions to support workers so impossible? Why are two simple propositions made to feel so impossible?
@@abody499Well, you better go tell the Japanese, Turkish, and every other group on earth that their ethnic identities don't exist anymore because you've said so too... Wouldn't want to look like a hypocrite that only wants us erased would you? Considering English literally are Anglo Saxon under norman rule. That's where it started and that's how it evolved. Live with it already.
@@abody499 Oh so my comment was deleted. Funny that. Also that's one estimate, there are estimates in between. Did you know that if you had a mixed race child with a black person that you'd be more closely related to another English person than your own child? Keep that in mind. Anglo Saxon is the cultural identity English is based on, so culturally we're Anglo Saxon. Genetically half, more, or less, but we cluster together and have a haplogroup. So what we can say, is that we're an ethnicity that's made up of the Britons from before, and the Germanic tribes that settled. That ethnicity took on aspects of the new culture, Anglo Saxon. Anglo Saxon is what we became. We're a unique ethnicity with our own cultural and ethnic identity stemming from Anglo Saxon. That's just a fact, and what you just said doesn't actually contradict anything that I've demonstrated.
@@abody499 Then why don't you define it for me, and then give me some facts that contradict anything that I just said....Or are you projecting. What should our ethnic identity be? Should we not have one? And if we can't, what about Japanese or Turkish people? Dying to hear you people actually explain anything. All you seem to be able to do is attempt to deconstruct anything that upsets you with inane arguements and buzzwords.
All the pension fonds are heavily invested in the stock market, therefore there is little alternative to 'keeping the stock market happy', given an aging population.
when academics closeted away in their ivory towers actually walk around downtown areas of Western European towns and cities, they won't bother even asking the question.
@@ParacolidingDanni a "lie" backed up by empirical data, handed out by official institutions... In fact most progressivists have long moved on towards the "that is what always happened throughout history, so dont be mad" stance - youre a bit late to the party...
When you describe the far right you are also describing the far left. The problem is you have no idea what the right actually is because your prejudice is keeping your blinkers on.
The reason why the far right, neoliberalism and demagoguery runs rampant in western and European politics is because of the collapse of the Soviet Union. That’s the only good explanation that actually accounts for everything. The moment there was no alternative to or fear of the Soviets and their policies as well as the dread of the capitalist class & system of a union or socialist revolution backed by the Kremlin, the capitalists ran amok and now do as they please. There’s no alternative system competing for the hearts and minds of the proletariat, no political parties with Soviet sympathies and affiliations, no envy or example of the Soviets so the far right, demagogues and capitalists are gorging themselves on the cadaver of the proletariat’s & middle class’ wealth, that is their labour, without adequately compensating them and scapegoating immigrants as well as the most disenfranchised people in society for all of our problems, be it women, immigrants, the homeless etc.
Unions and leviathans are regulated and interconnected by regulatory frameworks. Codification of labor needs with economic development is an essential topic of how policies and companies can collaborate on population management, development, and urban housing planning. Without coordinated economics simply means neoliberalism will aim for a competitive hegemony with populist right. Democracy depends on work groups, committees , funded projects and sustaining the research to implementation in accountability basis. A major weakness is the Keynesian unity of private and public companies being forced into competitive conflict. If funding went to them directly to jobs it would benefit workers much more.
I'm with you all the way, Richard. I too had high hopes that Starmer was just placating the media till he got into power but he has carried on along the same road. We need a new party to be formed by those on the left from the Greens LibDems and Labour. The trouble is , "power corrupts"😟
Please define far right, because that is the subject matter here, and also because in last 2 months me, and millions of other people, have suddenly found out that we are deemed far right.
Far right generally in this case based on ultra-nationalist and nativist tendencies. Not all critiques of immigration are far right, it depends on the substance of the critique. A not far right critique notes the reason for immigration in the context of neoliberalism and the way it is cheaper to import workers than support them from birth (ie let the market do this, not public health and schools so we don't need to invest in them etc) A far right critique involves scapegoating migrants for economic problems they didn't cause, using racist stereotypes in this argument and the idea that there is a static national culture that must remain pure and can't exist without specific other cultures for some reason. So whether you are far right depends on the above. A lot of rhetoric is closer to the former rather than the latter. Far right leaders will convince you that you can improve living conditions by stopping immigration but not changing the way the economy operates.
You nailed it: people in Europe voted for social democrats (e.g. in the UK and Germany) in the late 90s, but instead got more neoliberal governments than ever before, which made many people loose faith in democracy altogether. That of course doesn't mean, that facism would be a better alternative. But somehow the parties still don't get, that moving even further towards the right will win them back the votes they lost. We currently only have the choice between right and far-right.
There's certainly a recalibration of what far right means. I take it to mean totalitarian Germany, Italy and Japan in the 1930s to mid-40s. Now any hint of social, economic or cultural conservatism is deemed far right, thus removing the near-right in one fell swoop, along with groups like the libertarian left which comprised a massive part of British vote. The primacy of the nation state which was wholly uncontroversial for left and right until recent times, is now a far right idea. Tony Benn's opinions would, incredibly, be called far right in 2024.
@@gordonstrong5232 absolutely nope, AfD are far right group and political group because its members are mostly activists nothing to do with religion, ethnicity, nothing to do with right wing, centralists, left wing, basically removing immigration illegal or not, same will happen here eventually
Richard ..love your videos ,they give great insights into financial and political matters ,but I think the term ‘far’ right is being overused and misapplied in a lot of circumstances . My guess deliberately,to undermine any credibility of those raising concerns by making an association with those organisations that truly were extremists .I think the problem is that the centre and left have failed to address concerns of huge swathes of the population,people feel that they are ignored and in a sense abused by successive governments. There is also hypocrisy..many of those with a liberal mindset support Ukraine and can be seen waving their Ukrainian flags alongside their support for such agendas as trans rights and mass immigration. I like Ukrainians and continue to visit frequently,but they are by no means liberal,for example try unfurling your rainbow flag there and see how far it gets you .likewise you will find the vast majority of the population are white ,like a lot of Eastern Europe immigration from outside of Europe isn’t very well tolerated. This is before we mention the azov regiment who still March under a banner that has echoes of the SS. I live in Hungary a country that the EU like to portray as ´far right’ ,( I’ve not seen any evidence of this ,traditionalist yes ,and supportive of traditional family values yes ) but at the same time the EU and U.K. /USA continue to pump money and weapons to a regime in Kiev that makes Hungary look woke . It’s this kind of nonsense that undermines these organisations’credibility and gives rise to alternatives,be they populist,far right or left or whatever term you wish to use.
Isn't that the pont of the video? He's not saying people are far right, he is saying the parties they might be turning to are, and so people need to be careful what they wish for. A very similar type of far right party became popular in the 1940s in the uk, however that quickly died off once the war started and people turned away from them pretty quickly.
To beat the " far right" a term which is banded about far to often in my view. You first have to defeat the neo liberal establishment. And therefore if you become a significant political force you will also get labelled by the establishment as " radical left" or something to that end. So the neo liberal establishment can maintain power. What a actually need to happen is all parties outside of the neo liberal world view that being left or right have to work together in bringing down the neo liberal establishment.
The big question Richard is why don't you support an end to mass immigration. That would put an end to the need for far right parties if the left only decided to listen to the people
@@fabfran4104And you're fallen for the narrative of calling everyone far right who you deem as a lesser person to yourself. It's counterproductive but you are too full of hubris to realise that. The demographics of Leicester have completely changed in my lifetime. It is completely unrecognisable. Our capital city is minority natives. 1 in 7 people living in the UK were not born there. We are importing the population of Newcastle each year without building a new Newcastle each year. Probably less than 1% of newcomers get placed in social category A, B, C1 postcodes, with likely 90 % being placed in the poorest 2 postcodes. Now, regardless of whether such changes are good or bad, and without calling me far right, try explaining why our leaders have transformed our cities in such a short time, and why it is mainly the poorest postcodes that were transformed by them, not their own.
@@fabfran4104 I've yet to hear a convincing narrative for mass migration from the left especially in a nation that has not made a fiscal surplus in 24 years. I would sort profitability first before increasing the size of Britain plc or you just only succeed in increasing the size of your troubles
As I recall, the Left actually won an election in Greece in 2015, which raised the morale of leftist parties around Southern Europe. However, even after being elected, they discovered that due to the opposition of the European financial elite, they were unable to carry out their program and were forced to accept the very austerity measures that they opposed.
It revealed the helplessness of the voters when they defy the financial elites.
So in a neo-liberal world, you can not achieve anything on your own when you try to promote left winged politics.
It’s the same deal with climate protection.
Everyone knows we need to change something, but when one country tries to, it doesn’t actually change anything, when everyone else doesn’t. So people just get frustrated even more.
Which means what’s going to happen is that we probably need to destroy our societies again and built a new one based on past mistakes.
Which is going to cost a lot of life’s. But that’s probably the only way to change anything. Doing it the painful way.
Cool my comment has been shadow banned again 🫤
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UA-cam is such a joke 😑
No. Greece had many major flaws, like a dysfunctional administration which was unable to collect taxes (especially from the rich trade ship owners), payed out pensions to dead people, handn't even got a land register (a reason for illegal layed fires). The Greek government even consulted Goldman Sachs to hide it's budget deficit to get into the Eurozone and avoid sanctions.
Since the banks and investors lost trust and didn't want to buy government bons without high interest rates, the European Central Bank and the other countries of the Eurozone had to step in, in form of transferring taxpayers money, giving out loans with low interest rates and debt cuts.
But these helps were massively unpopular in the rich countries which did have to pay them, actually even the far right German AfD party was founded as a protest movement against these programs.
So the political leaders on the Eurozone were under pressure to go hard on Greece, not only demanding the necessary reforms the country needed, but also Austerity policy.
So the main reason the left government couldn't do their program, was due to the interest of the taxpayers of the wealthy northern European countries.
If you want to look at a successful attempt of a left wing policy you'd rather look at Portugal. It was also highly in debt, but there the Socialist government could convince the Eurozone to handle it's problem without applying Austerity, while at the same time delivering reforms to make the state more efficient and effective. They had a convincing plan, the Greece government on the other hand mostly populist rhetoric.
No. Greece wanted the other euro countries, like Germany, to continue to pay their bills. Greek voters have no democratic right to vote that German tax payers should fund their widening deficit. A better description is that the Greece populists simply had to face reality: long-term, you can't spend more than what you make.
So, the European financial elite refused to finance the the Greek living far above their means.
It appears that we're living in a globalized second Gilded Age in which there is no shortage of Trump wannabes, but authentic center-left alternatives are scarce. The problem is that the average voter is in pain, but has no idea of what's really going on; they vote for the far-right in desperation, but that only make things worse. We need a new progressive movement and preferably a new Roosevelt as our champion.
They vote for the side that caused all their pain somehow hoping it will stop instead of giving the side trying to help them enough power to be effective.
@5353Jumper The problem for us is that it's hard to sell complex solutions to complex problems, while our opponents have learned that it's much easyy to sell fear (amygdala politics).
Americans know they're voting for war and endless austerity, they're very aware.
I like the way you think! As I watched the video, I thought, “OK, if left wing economic policy is the answer, where are the examples of successful application of those policies?” Of course, I came to the same answer you did.
So why did we move away from those policies? My guess is that the very wealthy, who have a disproportionate amount of influence prefer policies that benefit them at the expense of everybody else.
@AndrewUnruh Why? Blame Nixon. He's the one who nominated Lewis F. Powell Jr for the Supreme Court, who in turn penned the majority decisions for Buckley v Valeo in 1976 and First National Bank of Boston v Bellotti in 1978. The result? Money is equal to free speech and corporations are people, thereby legalizing bribery. I suspect that also helped Reagan get elected in 1980 and I'm quite certain that it's what convinced both Clinton and Obama to embrace and continue the neoliberalism introduced by Reagan.
One thing about the left-wing. In many European countries, there has been a concerted effort by the so-called "centrist" parties to drive left-wing ideas out of what is considered "acceptable" politics. Kier Starmers Labour is a perfect example. He has expelled almost anyone with even the slightest hint of a left-wing idea from the party. While Macron is refusing to work with the left and basically showing his utter contempt for the French voters, which will only really benefit the far-right.
The centrists and neoliberals see the left as more of a threat then the far-right. This is what brought the n@zis to power in 1933 and it is helping to bring a new generation of far-right into power in the 21st century.
do you have anything between your ears at all. mass immigration is the reason for this simple and straightforward. how stupid can one be
This can be seen in the UK undercover police scandal. Going back to the 60s they were going undercover but only in left wing or activist groups. They often assumed fake identities, sometimes using the names of deceased children, and lived double lives for years. They even had children with people which they abandoned once their operations ended.
Many of those they spied on were non-violent activists involved in environmental, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist movements.
They weren't undercover in right wing groups. That tells you everything about the priority of every government since.
Here here, Starmer is a right wing pirate who keel hauled Corbyn and set the Corbynites adrift, left wing hasn't had a look in because the system has poisoned the very thought of having a left wing government, the rich have slandered and propagandised the left into oblivion bec6the rich are terrified of paying their fare share.
@@clementattlee6984its called being sensible
Another mixing far and wing
many reasons, but at its core its because hate is easier to invoke than empathy.
Very true.
Both sides are selling them out to corporations, but the side that does it a little more also makes hate OK.
Exactly@@thec9424
Empathy for what exactly?
It seems you have no empathy towards the “far right” to me….
Because to hate You only need ignorance, to have empathy You need to understand
Yes, thats why you hate us. And you try to make us hate each other on the behest of your globalist elite overlords. "Far right" now encompasses almost everyone, and we are sick of being hated.
Plato warns about the danger of democracy in his book The Republic and how tyranny is very easy to transition into. The rise of the right is the symptom of mass unhappiness in the populace and should be the very thing that makes our politicians take a step backwards and rethink their policies
He warned about STUPID people having a vote... That's Democracy's Achilles heel... An informed and thoughtful populace is required for Democracy to work... So what's the solution? End Democracy? or End stupid people's ability to affect everyone with their arrogance and ignorance...
These politicians were elected by the people. For decades.
@MarkoT-xy6ep I know, Plato also stated that a government is a reflection of the people. That is a simplistic view. Nonetheless, people are voting for populists and they don't care about the people, but the people think they do. The recent killing of the CEO in America has seen the elites really worried because the right and left feel that it was payback for so many declined insurance claims that killed thousands of America people. A tipping point will come, and it may have jack boots on, or ordinary voters will finally snap
Its not "The Republic," it's just "Republic"
...instead of blaming the "indicated" voter.
Neoliberal economics has failed to deliver benefits for the greater good. If the existing system failed, people turn to something else.
Yes, very good point.
Its more that the native people of britain and europe see the invasion by 'refugee' islamics for what it really is....an invasion approved by the neo-marxist leaning governments and their sycophants in the traditional media , by people that openly despise everything about european society and everything that makes it good to live in......and then the left wonders why anyone with half a brain despises their ideas for the future of western society.
Why is the far right so popular in Europe? I ask the question for very good reason.
The Corporate capture of power forces Governments to put those with wealth and the power to economically affect our societies before the rest of us
Neo liberal policies are right wing politics.
Yes, well put. People think Farage has the answers but he'll be worse than what people are rebelling against.
Indeed, when a wealthy elite charlatan claims to be against 'the system' & on the side of the 'people' & alarm bells don't go off, something is wrong with your snake oil detector.
Doubt it
Do you mean, worse then locking people in jail for SEEING a political meme on the internet?
@@Carlosmltr Please give me an example of this.
He doesn't have the answers. He has the gift of the gab (also Murdochs amplification and blessing)
The term "neoliberal" [applied here to most mainstream parties both within and outside the UK] needs some explaining. I believe neoliberalism describes the economics of Regan and Thatcher, rolled out controversially in the 1980s, which saw mass privatizations and sell-offs of major national assets such as social housing, gas, water and public trapnsport. There was also a deregulation of financial markets which culminated around 2008 in the banking crisis and ensuing economic recession. The resurgence of the Far Right [and the growth of conspiracy theories and anti-immigrant racism] has its roots in disillusionment with consensus [neoliberal] economic policies. Again, many thanks to Richard Murphy for highlighting an urgent problem.
The irony is that much of the far right seems to be neo-liberalism but turbo charged.
You're 100% right - people like Hayek and Rand popularised it back in the 40s and 50s, Thatcher and Reagan embraced it and made it mainstream in the 80s. I'm not seeing anyone on the Far Right really going against this orthodoxy. They might talk about global elites being the enemy, but economically they tend to be very supportive of them, while decrying leftist socialism, Marxist, communism and 'liberalism', as well as trade unionism.
Yes.
Thank you. I was obviously confused about the distinction between neo-Liberal and right wing. I never realised there was a big difference between the two positions.
I'm not sure there is a big difference between "neoliberal" and right wing - it's just that the former is an economic term for policies that favour a market driven economy. It is strongly associated with right-wing figures such as Regan and Thatcher, who were both fiercely anti trade unions and strongly individualist.
I believe it’s worth turning our attention to Mexico to examine the country’s remarkable rise under the leadership of López Obrador and now Claudia Sheinbaum. Their approach represents a balanced, people-focused left, underpinned by astute economic policies and a resolute stance against far-right ideologies. This stands in stark contrast to their northern neighbour, where a disturbing neofascist undercurrent appears to be taking shape.
Obrador and Sheinbaum are not as liberal and transparent as you think. They talk a different talk but walk the same walk!
UNDER AMLO:
- Crime has gone up
- Democracy has significantly weakened
- He is absolutely terrible for the environment
- Slowing economic growth
- 5% spending deficit
Please tell me again he's doing a goos job?!
The people leading mexico right now call their ideology mexican humanism, "the poor must come first" is one of their core ideas.
They are very much post neo liberalism.
Migration northward takes the pressure off Mexico.
Ähm areyou talking about that one person that took important people from the Opposition party out because she has nice connections too some people? If Yes then Woooow you are really on the good side ☠️
Simple answer: greed, ignorance, self-interest and stupidity have always been popular.
It’s easy to say that when you’re not the one who’s needs aren’t being met. It sounds like you’re doing just fine probably at the expense of those supporting the right.
@@ggjr61 The stupidity comes in from the people supporting the right believing that the right-wing politicians will do anything to help them. They never have in the past, so why would they think they're going to do something in the future?
Its not rocket science, there is a common theme in all country's, an underlying cause which is the debt based financial system and it hollows out the fabric of society, which causes the dissatisfaction, which can then be used to fuel far right politics, wars scapegoating and so on. What does it matter what policy are put forth by a government when this feudal system is in place? It is baffling that people cant see this even now, that they are dominated by a financial elite and instead they want to talk politics.
Very interesting take. Politics used as a smoke screen.
You can only make big changes in your life and others when you got the money to do so.
Money is so important that it completely nullifies any general morals people should have.
So the ones that get the money to make any changes are general people that don’t care about others.
If you try to get money the legal and morally correct way, it always requires a lot of work, in addition of just having luck. So you’re basically playing the lottery while others can just play with peoples life’s to become rich and powerful.
Bad people apologize and promise changes, but they don’t actually mean it. They just try to benefit from others as long as possible.
If big companies can influence a government to make people do what they want instead of the other way around, it’s going to get worse for society. Because the company only cares about money and not the well being of people.
Well said. I'm a lifelong Labour voter and am in absolute despair at what the Labour party is doing. I too voted for Starmer in the hope that maybe some Socialist principals would happen. I feel quite homeless at the moment although I still continue as a party member having respect for our local MP. Like you I think this rise of the far right and nationalistic populism terrifying
There is no "far-right" in any meaningful sense in politics. What does exist, is a bunch of normal people who have become alienated by how far left the Overton Window has been pushed. Take Donald Trump, he is a 1980's Democrat, but in 2016 he somehow became cheeto-Hitler.
What just happened in the US. Average people are getting poorer and they vote for somebody who will give everything to the richest.
Right??? As a 3rd generation .1%’er I was embarrassed when Trump cut corporate tax almost in half😳 We live through corporations, own virtually nothing in our own name, so the tax break was unreal. Did I hire another personal assistant, domestic, caretaker…or give raises with the extra money? Nope… Same with our public corporations. They simply bought back their own stock, which raised the share price, the wealthy enjoy the increase in net worth and the execs got their bonuses for raising the stock price. When asked, Trump said they weren’t suppose to do that🤣
Because the whole democratic system of the US is already in control of the politicians.
How can a two party system be democratic?
Why is it a two party system?
Because the politicians do everything to keep it that way.
They influence their people so they think they don’t actually have any other choices.
Then they sabotage each other to create and endless circle of the other getting another chance.
So, nothing new there then.
Average people are not getting poorer. That's just not factual true. Incomes for the working class grew at a fast clip under Biden. He was a pro labor president, brought back manufacturing jobs and created massive infrastructure projects. The voters didn't give a shit. They preferred the demagogue that screamed about immigrants eating cats and dogs and tried to win an election with violence.
Maybe,we’ll see. When he was in office last time things were significantly better for the lower classes. For example that tax cut the left constantly calls a tax cut for the rich was also a tax cut for the working and middle class and people appreciated it. Employment for minorities was up too especially for the black community and illegal immigration was down. That in comparison to the last four years was a major reason he was re elected.
Most of the time, the term 'far right' is used to describe centre parties with common sense
There's a Russian-American historian, Peter Turchin, who's investigated what happens with many societies over the centuries. He says the pattern is for the rich to gradually get richer, have more political power which they use to largely benefit themselves. This increases inequality until it is intolerable for those who aren't part of the rich. The masses might start voting far right. The system then resets itself, usually very painfully. I suspect we are getting to that point with neo-liberalism. I've wondered if the popularity of far right parties is a symptom of the problem, but doesn't often provide the solutions.
I don't much about the far right economic policies in Europe, but in the USA the Republicans are further up the ass of the rich and corporations than the Democrats are so voting for Republicans is only doubling down on neoliberalism.
That is a tough ask. Jeremy Corbin was politically annihilated in 2019 and he was the only MP to offer genuine change, a genuine alternative to the status quo since I was a young boy. If we are going to come up with an alternative we've got to do it soon
It is quite simple. The majority parties are committed to mass immigration, net zero and alienating the bulk of the population through aggressive social liberalism
.the voters dont want this or more than 50%
I think you nailed it here: the "left" wants change to deal with problems caused by old status quo policies, the "right" promises that the status quo will work for you if we just keep to it.
Corbyn wasn't emotional enough/gut emotions. The right wing add in the visceral emotions. Left wingers are too busy padding their CV and looking 'proper' (most come for middle class+ families), so therefore, people vote for the right wing nut jobs. 'Liberals' are highly educated and ladder climbers; your local plumber isn't
It was specifically the Zionists who annihilated him....and democracy
I think Richard is missing something. Many people are voting for parties that claim they oppose mass immigration. It’s not just economics, culture matters too.
You tell him mate!! WHITE LIVES MATTER!!!
Traditional culture is finished...its been destroyed by rampant colonialism, religion, capitalism and greed over centuries.
I’ve never understood what “culture” means despite being almost 70 and never having lived anywhere but the UK. Perhaps that’s because I’ve always been a misfit. I remember, for example, being at primary school and bringing in the things we were asked to bring in for BBC nature programmes on the radio. It was made VERY clear to me by the others that wasn’t socially acceptable. My “culture” wasn’t theirs.
He's missing intelligence.
@@sososoprano1Have you visited other countries much?
It would be difficult to get a sense of differences in culture if you’ve only experienced one.
Biggest problem is both sides care more about their stock options than their nation.
When people perceive they are struggling some become easily convinced that it is the fault of minorities and foreigners, it appears to be part of human nature. Rising popularity of the far right is a red flag that the authorities (of whatever persuasion) are not (or cannot) deal with the core issues causing people to struggle. I expect it will continue until policies reduce inequality.
If foreigners are coming here by the boat load and putting pressure on our country, causing societal breakdown, then yes, the foreigners may well get the blame. We all know it''s the fault of the politicians, but they're doing their best 'not to be racist', and so the situation gets worse.
It really is. Only someone totally deluded and hateful of the native Europeans will think colonising their countries with millions and millions of third-world migrants and not making any effort to integrate them doesn't effect anything. Want to reduce inequality? Stop importing cheap labour and suppressing wages.
Nonsense. The demographic change has started to strain the societal fabric as certain cultures are simply incompatible. The europeans feel they loose control over their turf
So, the average person see the wealthy get wealthier, and decide to vote more wealthy people into power? Odd.
If the alternative sticks up for criminals and rapists what choice we have?
Yes exactly
brainwashed by the billionaire tax avoider owned media
The far left wealthy, like Gates, Soros, Starmer and Blair?
Because the wealthy have convinced them that foreigners are the reason why they are getting poorer. It is quite easy to do as foreigners look different and can be singled out, whereas the white slave master exploiters look just as white as the poor.
My family is mixed race, I’ve seen these problems coming
We need to return to people being judged based on their character and actions, regardless of which community they belong to.
Tribalism. ‘Us Vs Them’ thinking is the issue across the board. Racial identity has been held up as the most important fact about people over the last decade, unless you’re white then it’s demonised. Anyone disagreeing with that over the past 10 years has been deemed racist.
These facts have created more people identifying with being white (refusing to be shamed based on their race) and the voices supporting this being more extreme I.e. those who don’t care if they are called racist.
It’s a perfect storm for the rise of the far right.
Do you think people on 'the right' dislike people because of their skin colour? Absolutely not, they're up in arms about immigration (wherever it's from) and knife crime (whoever it's by). They don't like the break down in our society.
This is bullshit tbh. We’ve never had a time when people were judged based on their character and actions, so we can’t ’return’ to it any more than we can go back to the future.
Any negative action by a white person is an individual action, but any negative action by a non-white person is reflective of the whole of whichever demographic they belong to.
Having some non-white people in your family doesn’t give any credence to your bullshit. It’s the ‘I can’t be racist, I’ve got black mates’ argument.
It's not about white or black, it's about division and divisive politics to gain power through abusing religion, politics, race or social standing ( class) India, Israel, Russia, Sudan etc are not black and white issues.
@@Ghengiskhansmum try reading my comment again.
Very good point. I have never thought myself as "white european" in the first 25 years of my life. All of the sudden ethnicty and skincolor was a topic everywhere and i was basically forced to pick my tribe
if you stop and think about it, the only time things were vaguely going in the right direction for working people was in the 50's and 60's...maybe. That's 20 years of things being 'ok' in the entire history of organised labour
Erm ok says the guy typing his comment on some device provided by a company operating in a market that can bring him goods at affordable prices
@@danielpye7738But the same thing is becoming less accessible for that guy. We are getting poorer every year. In 50's and 60's we vwere getting richer and richer. Now we are stagnating (as you said, we are right now fine more or less) but we won't be in near future. 35 years after WW2 the bottom 50 got 129 % richer while the top 1 got 58 % richer. From 1980 to 2014 the bottom 50 got 21 % richer and top 1 got 94 % richer and thats only percentage. If this trend continues, we will eventually stop getting any growth for low-income people as inflation will be always be bigger that the growth of bottom 50.
Because they had to reward the working class for the sacrifices to defeat Hitler and counter the Red menace. Those imperatives no longer exist.
Maybe, but the Unions then totally cocked it all up in the 1970s, which is why there was the backlash of Margret Thatcher.
@@mikehunt.1609 - the unions were just trying to keep wages in line with inflation back then. It was the ruling classes that decided to put their foot down and put the commoners back in their place. Of course, since the papers were all owned by rich people, the story was told quite differently...
Same problem in New Zealand. Gap between rich and poor is disgusting and growing.
I'm a NZer too and this growing inequality has been happening for quite some time
It's history repeating itself just like in the 30s
It’s the same stupidity here in Australia.
US, as well.
I thought the Australian Labor party would be a breath of fresh air after the Morrison years but it is walking a similar path. Albo should have been the left’s poster boy considering his upbringing but it’s not turning out that way.
@ sadly true
Hold on, the UK and Australia have swing left….
@@danielpye7738swung centrist - Keir Starmer and the Australian Labor Party have difficulties enacting leftist policies. As I understand it, Starmer in the UK is not about to lead the Labour Party in any political risk taking. In Australia, the Greens seem to be colluding with the Coalition to wedge Labor whenever they can
Without reform of the UK's first-past-the-post voting system and some significant change in the media landscape to de-power the influence of the Sun-Daily-Torygraph, the Labour Party will need to continue to tread on eggshells on so many issues. Without those reforms, a more left leaning Labour Party would soon be out of office and all your hopes would be as dust. Voting reform has to come first.
I agree the media have way too much influence along with other sectors of society. I would argue that Corbyn has been the most successful politician in recent years and with the most left wing policies, why? because it gave people hope and the Labour Party became the largest political party in Europe but this was not acceptable to many of the establishment and so he had to be brought down. Then, Cameron had to go into coalition with the Lib Dems to form a government and May had to coerce the DUP to support her so that she could form a government, hardly overwhelming victories, so I think, if the media can be effectively dealt with, the Left would be popular in this country and give people what they are hoping to get from the far right.
As an Australian, I've noticed that countries that have a Murdoch dominated press have fallen for this neo-liberalism and now far-right agenda. Both our Liberal/National party and Labor party are seemingly working for the big corporates and the super wealthy. Many of these politicians after leaving parliament get employed by the very corporations that they were lobbied by whilst ministers and often the people that they previously opposed.
@@edbennett2Probably just a coincidence 🙄
@@edbennett2Coincidence, of course 🙄
@@edbennett2 yes, I agree. The EU stopped Murdoch from taking over more media outside UK, he then started his campaign to weaken the EU. Brexit was his biggest success.
Look up the role media mogul Hugenberg played in the rise of the Nazi party and bringing Hitler into office in Germany 1933.
Best political analysis I've seen in months
Expertly put. So frustrating how obvious this is but how blind everyone is.
People are simply forgetting how nationalism awful was.
Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.
@@LowPlainsDrifter60 And those who don't forget are condemned to watch it roll over everyone.
@@LowPlainsDrifter60 That was what the sign said in the main pavilion at Jonestown. Seriously. That Santayana quote was given an exalted position by Jim Jones, for reasons that I don't think we know.
Nazism, not nationalism. Big difference.
Most countries that were colonized by Western Europeans only exist because of nationalism.
I hate the term "neoliberal" because it is anything but liberal.
That's the world we are living in:
neoliberale (or, in Europe, even liberal) has nothing to do with liberal, social democratic parties are not social democratic anymore, gas and nuclear power are called 'sustainable', the Republicans are about to turn the country into a oligarchy...
Yeah, a more appropriate term for that political position would be "turbo-capitalistic".
The generation that had to risk it all to stop far right extremism in the late thirties and early forties has now houred out and there is no living memory of where extremism leads.
I want everyone back in good well-paying jobs that create real value so that I can tax the bejasus out of them to pay for the drains and the streetlighting and roads and GPs and dentists and hospitals and schools and soldiers and sailors and airmen with proper kit. I've nothing against businessmen turning a profit as long as shareholders don't come before citizens.
but shareholders are citizens
@@davidharris3264 citizens matter more
@@davidharris3264 With a vested interest to oppose the best interests of all the other citizens, who aren't shareholders. Some citizens are more equal than others.
In the anglo world shareholders come first - there are no other stakeholders recognised. A CEO who doesnt maximise profit can be sued and / or removed.
Richard doesn't think taxes pay for anything though
Wanting to reverse mass immigration and to deport foreign criminals regardless of if they have been given the right to stay does not make a person far right. I say that as a former Labour Party member and Jeremy Corbyn supporter. I consider the support of mass immigration to be a neoliberal/globalist aim of which I am neither.
Agreed. Totally with you on your points.
It's a sort of neo colonialism. Invite all the servants here to work on low pay (black economy) so you can have working from your (nice) home 4 days a week while ordering food and stuff whenever you like. A whole new underclass on your doorstep. Obviously these don't really count a unionised working class - is it any wonder that this business model came out of California. So those who lose out are the low paid who have to pay tax and work multiple jobs. These people then find common cause with the "far right". Nigel farage is very wealthy but can "read the room".
That's one bizarre thing: in the US the Republicans blocked strict immigration rules, because that's what they were going to run their campaigns on. And generally, far right parties tend to run on anti-immigration, because it will get them votes, but they are not really interested in reducing the low-wage sector, because the people who are financing them make their money, exploiting underpaid people.
It needs to go much further than that to fix things.
Left and Right is well past being a useful demarcation. It’s more about levels of imposed coercion
Only the right have a problem with terms.
Left v right has always been bullshit. Fascism was not a new idea - just a collection of pre-existing ideas, mostly from the left. Same with Nazism - even genocide of the Jews, in modern ideology, first appears in mid 19th century French socialism.
Sadly, the left has been entranced by postmodern ideas that allow it to 'deconstruct' all other positions, but won't take the post mod tool to their own precious ideas - which remain essential and unchallenged. I have no idea how gullible intellectuals have to be to not see how stupid and cynical this is.
It's a very useful demarcation if you understand what it means.
@@reallymakesyouthink it tends to mean whatever each person wants. Usually just a reflection of their own tribalistic projections.
Yawn
That is a very good question! I cant understand how people see far right as an option...
The fundamental problem is the Political Party system itself. That inevitably leads to division, conflict and gross mismanagement. That system has been abused by the wealthy, who also own and run much of the media.
Having some radical ideas myself, I know just how difficult it can be to get my voice heard.
I listened to your video after it appeared on my feed.
I agreed and instantly subscribed.
Good luck in all your endeavors.
Kind regards from Iceland
💜💛💜💜
People also need to understand that neoliberalism hasn’t failed. It’s working and delivering as intended, for the ruling classes and neoliberals. All this that you’re angry with is intended.
All the people here who continue to vote Labour despite everything we’ve seen since Blair jumped into bed with Bush have been fantasising with no basis. Here in the UK, the Green Party has offered genuinely radical alternatives for decades but a) The main parties have never offered us PR to allow any real alternative to take hold b) The billionaire owned media keep the majority either in ignorance and/or distracted with irrelevant trash. Presenting any alternatives in such an environment is a seriously uphill struggle.
Completely agree.
"Far right" is an embarassing terminology.
Great video! Congratulations!
Such irony in some of the comments on here - how much of the immigration into the UK is a result of Western foreign policies, made by neoliberal governments? People are leaving their beloved homelands because of war, frequently involving the US and its allies, such as the UK, and also as a result of colonialism. How many Gaza people would choose to come here to escape persecution by the Israeli government if they could? We have helped to fuel that crisis. That's just one example, but there are many, such as Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, ...
Albania ain’t at war Gill. Just saying.
Gazans by in large care more about killing Jews than feeding their own children.
You seem keen to dismiss immigration as a cause of this situation, but I would argue that it is one of the biggest issues that Europeans are worried about. You may want to paint those concerns as racist, but they are real, and they are not going away. Ironically, this issue is inextricably linked to the concerns which you DO address in your video - the only reason mass immigration is allowed is because it provides the ruling classes with an endless supply of cheap labour, and they can keep increasing their profit margins, while keeping all our wages down.
I don't bear any malice towards immigrants - they are being exploited as much as we are - but their presence in such numbers is a very visible symptom of the larger problem of neoliberalism. Remember that the vast majority of the British public aren't students of politics nor economics - they vote according to their everyday lives and everyday needs, and will respond positively to anyone who tells them what they want to hear. Since it has become apparent that NONE of our political parties have any intention of following through with their election manifesto promises, how do people choose who to vote for? It is this situation that allows for chancers like Farage to come along and bulls*** his way into parliament, and the same across Europe.
Agree Totally. Immigration is all about neoliberals desperate last roll of the dice, a ponzi scheme in all but name.
In 15 years the British will be a minority in England. In 25 years the British will be a minority in Britain. The true Fascists are the one-party LibLabCon who exist to provide a mixture of socialism/big business, to stop any alternative party getting in their way. Their policy is to exterminate the British people.
If you live in any town or city which has a large immigrant population you will notice that the current influx of immigrants is quite disconcerting.
Yes, but it's not the cause of widening inequality...that is due to the economic and political system that works for the rich and against everyone else. Migration is used to scare folk into voting for what the rich want
I tend to agree. In the EU, the far right began to gain grounds after Merkel's welcoming policies to huge numbers of asylum seekers without a clear and structured way to do so, agreed by all EU members.
They call it far right.Its between truth and lies
This argument is based on experience of the Second World War when poverty sent people looking for a new alternative and looking for scapegoats. In this case the economy and living standards are significant part but it’s also about cultural differences. I‘m British and live in Germany where my daughter sits in a class with 50% Muslims who are taught from the Koran that they shouldn’t mix with non Muslims. They speak Arabic in class and the teacher has to tell them to speak German because the other half don’t know what’s going on. We were all naive and ignorant of this religion and culture and optimistic they would somehow become European. They don’t. It’s like oil and water. You can’t make people integrate when their religion tells them not to. It’s a problem that everyone suffers from and politicians ignore. Till they change something people will grab onto anyone who listens. That’s the traditional parties in Europe that caused this, Germany, Sweden, France, Ireland etc. I love diversity but if it continues like this then there will be no lovely diverse cultures in Europe anymore, just the remnants. We like our European democracies and life and don’t want to live in fear of Islam. So fear and survival is the main reason. It’s the wrong solution because it’s trading islamo fascism for Ethnic European neo fascism. The Centre parties have to stand by their own people but they are too self interested and serving their rich.
I hear you. What you say about them is true.
I think that the choice which we all will have to face is that we do something about the problem. I can only see three ways in which the future of Europe (including the UK) could possibly proceed. Firstly by voting in any party which will solve the problem and currently that means the right (parties like the AfD), because the left always only pretend to care about the people , bicker constantly whilst never achieving anything and are really only interested in their own power.
Or religious civil war will engulf the entirety of Europe, which would be horrific.
Last and by far the worst is that we will suffer the fate of the Middle East and Europe will become Islamic.
I'm voting for ANYONE who will fix the immigration problem and I suggest that you do too. ❤️🇩🇪
Good luck. 🇬🇧
Different religions rather like different languages, from the very start, have always served the purpose of
Divide & rule ( Story of Tower of Babel)
Any fundamental religious belief includes segregation of it's adherents from non-believers, doesn't it? Why have you singled out Islam, and used the phrase 'Islamo Fascism'? It sounds like you are repeating some Islamophobic rhetoric. Maybe you should talk to some of the parents of the children at your daughter's school.
Why do you find it strange that children would speak in their first language?
Most Muslims in the world are not fundamentalists, and enjoy life just like everyone else. Europe is in need of inward migration due to the ageing population. Why do you think that the people in 'developed' countries have not been reproducing at replacement rate for decades? Do you think it might have something to do with the neoliberalism that Murphy references in this video?
@@MartinLewisEsq if you take some time to learn about the Koran, then you can make your own informed opinion. I’ve done this and made mine. Kids should not be speaking another language in a classroom when the other half of the class doesn’t know what they’re saying nor the teacher. Do you not agree? As far as needing to boost population is concerned, first of all a lot have remained a drain on economies by not learning the language and working. In Islam, very often the women are forbidden from working. Secondly, they will eventually need health services, especially as they age and will draw pensions. They will by the next generation produce less children and become like the native population in reproductive terms. The evidence for that comes from the fact that depopulation is global and ever decreasing.The term islamofascism comes from the fact that they share many similarities to classical fascism in their beliefs, but take it even further. The end times for example cannot happen till all Jews, Christians, (and atheists), have all been killed. The aim of Islam is to conquer globally. Find some ex Muslims UA-camrs and find out some things for yourself. Of course there are decent Muslims, it’s their ideology which is problematic, not individuals.
@@scarba I have enough knowledge about the Koran to make an informed opinion.
All religious extremism is exclusive, look at the Orthodox Jewish areas of London for an extreme example of exclusivity.
Why are you suggesting that Islam is a religion that doesn't integrate well with other belief systems when there is plenty of historic evidence that Islamic cultures are very tolerant and welcoming?
If you are concerned about children talking one language or another maybe you should start an after school club to help the children?
Can you explain what does the far right mean ? What policies that these parties support considered far right ?
In a word, austerity.
When the riches 1% absorb 99% of the wealth you get misery as people struggle to survive so they cling to anything that will deal with the wealth hoarders, governments and the greedy rich are solely to blame.
So... is that why they elect / support people like Trump or Musk ? I'd rather think they're delusional...
Because they don’t teach its repercussions in school.
The rise of populist parties and the shift of centre politics to the right, is entirely due to the failings of the established parties.
Fix them and start governing for the people and not the WEF and the electorate may return.
Interestingly, what do you think about the Bündnis Sarah Wagenknecht (BSW). In her book (Die Selbstgerechten) Sarah Wagenknecht discribed the same problems. That book was heavily discussed in germany.
From the title of this video, I thought that it was referring to America.
Bring back the party associations that make political organizing fun again. Make it inclusive of all and labor issues.
Spot on.
To what extent does societal consensus simply swing back and forth mindlessly, over a period of perhaps a decade or two, without intent or reason?
And they actually think the right will help them 😂?
They do... and when they realize it doesn't, they'll find a way to blame the left for it
Discontent often results in the switch from left to right, or right to left, nothing really get done, if left or right, money is wasted, and poor gets poorer. Politics only benefits the elites.
Hallo Richard. This contribution of yours is STELLAR. I am with you !
Poverty is an invalid argument, as there are plenty of people that are financially stable that oppose mass migration.
But 'the right' isn't just about opposing what you call 'mass' immigration. They're also about cutting services and letting asset wealth off the leash. Both these things will dramatically and negatively affect even those who are financially stable and will do even more damage to those who are not.
So poverty is a valid argument and not just poverty in monetary terms. Poverty of ideas (sponsored by successive neoliberal governments in the UK for example) and poverty of voices assured by having the 'right people' in charge of much of our media.
If you don't want mass migration then maybe stop supporting right-wing dictatorships and oligarchies.
@@PortilloMoment Simply not true in reality. The right wants to stop our reliance on services, release people from the suffocating devouring mother that is the state. For those that truly need the support support will always be their. The right wants freedom from tyranny, but with that freedom comes responsibility. You should be responsible in your decisions only have the number of children you can support, only acquire habits your efforts can afford.
Problem is, mass immigration was under the 14 year tenure of the Tories.
@@PortilloMomentfar right is the republicans party eg let the poor die.
Burt nationsit parties labelled far right eg EDL, BNP, SD, LE PEN are nearly all left wing.
Housing being unaffordable and Politicians personally profiting from the housing cris is the main reason.
Austerity forever 😢
I agree, but I have no hope. This can apply to other parts of the world
The far right isn’t really winning. These far right parties are actually center right. It’s just your conservative parties in Europe are center-left. Being anti-immigration is a normal center-right position. Far right is characterized by wanting a dictatorship or monarchy and aristocracy and traditionalism and patriarchy and wanting to return to feudalism or empire or slavery.
Exactly what far right politicians like Trump, Farage and Wilders want and Orban has done.
The financial markets have real power to upset things. Witness the shambles of Liz Truss' economic policies which weren't liked by the financial markets, and also the UK's disastrous exit from the ERM in 1992 ("Black Friday"). It's not a wonder that the current government wants to avoid this
We all know what happened 5 to 8 years ago when a left of centre politian offered a slight change from neoliberalism 😢
Corbyn wasn’t “Left-of-centre” (by which I assume you meant moderate/soft Left). He was trad Left, much closer to Labour’s true core and to Socialism than any Labour leader in many decades. (I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, but it’s the main reason they had to kneecap him, though he didn’t always help his own case sometimes).
@@akastewart His ideas were traditional Labour, which in a nedliberal world were too revolutionary. There was no-one else (brave enough) to stand up for the ideas and principles he espoused. He was a poor standard bearer, but he was all there was.
Even with all the vilification and his own weaknesses he almost carried the way...Until the Labour. right wing deliberately sabotaged him. They should all be drummed out of the party. Disgraceful. IF there had been a more charistmatic Leader, they would have won.
@@gerrardcorner6199 I agree. Being left-leaning, I would prefer a true centre-Left gov. Corbyn a little too trad-Trad left for my personal politics, but it would be good to have those views present (in somewhat larger numbers) in parliament, in an influential opposition. The value of someone like Corbyn (when Labour leader) was to keep those possibilities on the table, and to balance out the Right, to some extent. I’m slightly more left-leaning when it comes to things like unions and nationalising water, energy and rail (though not post).
I consider him stronger as campaigner than as a politician. It will be interesting to see how his new ‘coalition of independents’ develops.
Is not all economics
Why is it so hard to secure the means of production under the control of the regular person? We are returning to the dark ages in which wealth was handed down from eldest son to eldest son and then eldest sons fought each other and captured their wealth. It wasn’t a good idea then and it’s not a good idea now.
And you could start by stopping calling people who are against mass immigration fascists.
Okay, we'll call you racists then.
But they are! That's part of the definition of a fascist, someone who is looking for a scapegoat and blames the ills of the nation on immigrants.
New subscriber here Richard. I like your clarity and look forward to seeing more of your content.
My view is simple: we desperately need a media that speaks the truth, especially about parties like Reform. Reform echoes the methodologies adopted by National Socialist Democratic Party to entice disheartened German people in the 1930s. For those who cry “oh not that argument again!”, do some research . . .
Everything is relative. When you’re on the far left, the centre looks far to the right of you
@PlutoPhobia-qg6wnfar left are communists, socialists, almost all establishments and elites in Europe. For example Labour, Lib-Dem and Greens are far left.
Mr Murphy. Obviously.
If you are xenophobic, militaristic and believe in strong leaders then you are far-right. Just take stock and own up to what you are.
The combat-18 tattoo might be a giveaway too.
@@TheCorkscrew24 another mixing far and wing
@DewiSant-o3y another mixing far and wing
In the US all us non government workers have been forced into the stock market with our pensions. People now will vote for the stock market out of concern for their financial interests.
Why RW Popular? Cos they Always Always provide supposedly easy solutions.
I thought they just stirred up issues and provided no solutions.
@@Redf322 Well....whatever it is I just know I don't like them. Hitler & such.
I'd rearrange that: not supposedly easy solutions, but rather easy supposed solutions.
Hmmm
Here the RW complains, spreading misinformation and hate.
They never provide any solution!
Btw Our German AfD is massively supported by Ruzzia. Trollfarms, money, campaigns, knowledge ...
@@Hiltok Indeed. Answers that are not solutions is the go-to of most politicians in my experience. It just depends on what form of unpleasantness one wishes to vote for, or against.
Can you do a video on the various shades of Neo liberalism please? Thanks.
Mass migration. You avoided that subject. Why?
Because as soon as that subject is broached it becomes blatantly obvious that the left are wedded to it and their whole styk about standing for the working class is exposed as the lie it has always been. The left depends on a constituency of serfs and if the working class won’t serf the left will import third worlders who will
Probably, because that's what mainstream media (and politicians) keep abusing to distract from the actual problem:
corruption / lobbyism which has lead to widen the gap between the rich and the poor for decades.
Instead of doing something about it, blaming minorities has been the fascist trick, which has always worked.
Mass migration is a result of neoliberalism
Germany has been steadily increasing its public spending over the last two decades. Federal budget is at an all time high. How is that neoliberal?
The answer to your question is that the "far right" merely means: "I am European and do not want to colonised and replaced in my own ancient tribal lands." Simple and natural really.
@@chopsandarchie7015 no
@Minimmalmythicistit pretty much feels the same. If someone woke up from a 50 year coma, they would think there'd been a war and we lost. Regardless of whether you love or hate the transformation the fact is that it happened.
Tribal lands? WTF?
@Minimmalmythicistreally? So if someone woke up in the middle of Leicester after 50 years, looked out the window and saw a 90% demographic difference what would a person think had happened?
Very good analys.rhe rich will have to fête ride of démocratie to keep the power and are working on it thanks to theese party..
Several triggers. A shocking rise in violent crime, disproportionately carried out by immigrants, many of whom arrived illegally. Governments unwilling to stem unrestricted immigration. People are fed up with diminution of freedom of speech. My family is mixed-race, and we think the way things are going are extremely bad for race relations generally. And by the way, arguing in favour of dramatically reducing immigration and taking action to reduce crime does not make someone a ‘far-right fascist’.
@@fburton8
EU POLITICO: "While foreigners make up about 15 percent of Germany's population, they accounted for a record 41 percent of all crimes in 2023. Crime that authorities attributed to foreign suspects rose by 23 percent in 2022 and by 18 percent in 2023, according to government statistics."
@@fburton8 The UK deliberately doesnt collect the data. No Data, No problem.
@@fburton8So you are not happy with the German data so you want others to research for you until they find data that you like?
ONS 2024:
- Foreign nationals made up 12% of the prison population, and
- People of minority ethnicities made up 27% of the prison population compared with 18% of the general population.
@@fburton8UK does a better job of suppressing facts.
Crime is related to inequality, isn't it? If you control for that factor you will find no higher propensity for crime in migrant populations.
How is properly taxing billionaires and multinational corporations properly or at all, so impossible? How is cleaning up and mobilising the unions to support workers so impossible? Why are two simple propositions made to feel so impossible?
The indigenous poor in England happen to be 'Anglo Saxon,' that is problematic for neo liberal Labour raised on American identity politics.
Are there any Anglo-Saxons left? Or for the indigenous poor of England, *_Is ænig Anglo-Saxon cyþþa forðan in Engla-land? Ic hæbbe þæt frægn_* .
Do you know what Neo-Liberal means?
@@abody499Well, you better go tell the Japanese, Turkish, and every other group on earth that their ethnic identities don't exist anymore because you've said so too... Wouldn't want to look like a hypocrite that only wants us erased would you? Considering English literally are Anglo Saxon under norman rule. That's where it started and that's how it evolved. Live with it already.
@@abody499 Oh so my comment was deleted. Funny that.
Also that's one estimate, there are estimates in between. Did you know that if you had a mixed race child with a black person that you'd be more closely related to another English person than your own child? Keep that in mind. Anglo Saxon is the cultural identity English is based on, so culturally we're Anglo Saxon. Genetically half, more, or less, but we cluster together and have a haplogroup. So what we can say, is that we're an ethnicity that's made up of the Britons from before, and the Germanic tribes that settled. That ethnicity took on aspects of the new culture, Anglo Saxon. Anglo Saxon is what we became. We're a unique ethnicity with our own cultural and ethnic identity stemming from Anglo Saxon. That's just a fact, and what you just said doesn't actually contradict anything that I've demonstrated.
@@abody499 Then why don't you define it for me, and then give me some facts that contradict anything that I just said....Or are you projecting. What should our ethnic identity be? Should we not have one? And if we can't, what about Japanese or Turkish people? Dying to hear you people actually explain anything. All you seem to be able to do is attempt to deconstruct anything that upsets you with inane arguements and buzzwords.
All the pension fonds are heavily invested in the stock market, therefore there is little alternative to 'keeping the stock market happy', given an aging population.
when academics closeted away in their ivory towers actually walk around downtown areas of Western European towns and cities, they won't bother even asking the question.
Because people don't have to take responsibility, or so they think (?)
Its all about demographic change - europeans feel that as an ethnic group, they're going the way of the red squirrel
A right wing lie
@@ParacolidingDanni Statistically observable truth.
@@ParacolidingDanni a "lie" backed up by empirical data, handed out by official institutions...
In fact most progressivists have long moved on towards the "that is what always happened throughout history, so dont be mad" stance - youre a bit late to the party...
@@ParacolidingDanni its backed up by goverment official data though
@bruceyawen6160 don't think so
I've repeated a reply to a comment twice. Been told 'reply added' both times, upon which the reply immediately disappeared. Why wd that be? Anyone?...
Happens to me too. I still can't figure it out. If you find out ... let me know!
When you describe the far right you are also describing the far left.
The problem is you have no idea what the right actually is because your prejudice is keeping your blinkers on.
The reason why the far right, neoliberalism and demagoguery runs rampant in western and European politics is because of the collapse of the Soviet Union. That’s the only good explanation that actually accounts for everything.
The moment there was no alternative to or fear of the Soviets and their policies as well as the dread of the capitalist class & system of a union or socialist revolution backed by the Kremlin, the capitalists ran amok and now do as they please.
There’s no alternative system competing for the hearts and minds of the proletariat, no political parties with Soviet sympathies and affiliations, no envy or example of the Soviets so the far right, demagogues and capitalists are gorging themselves on the cadaver of the proletariat’s & middle class’ wealth, that is their labour, without adequately compensating them and scapegoating immigrants as well as the most disenfranchised people in society for all of our problems, be it women, immigrants, the homeless etc.
There is no Far-Right in mainstream European politics.
We have a winner!
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Someone recognises the truth.
The labour party is nothing like the labour party when I was young! That was the 60's!!!
Because the overton window has shifted so far left, moderates are now considered far right. In reality, the true far right is very small
Unions and leviathans are regulated and interconnected by regulatory frameworks. Codification of labor needs with economic development is an essential topic of how policies and companies can collaborate on population management, development, and urban housing planning. Without coordinated economics simply means neoliberalism will aim for a competitive hegemony with populist right. Democracy depends on work groups, committees , funded projects and sustaining the research to implementation in accountability basis. A major weakness is the Keynesian unity of private and public companies being forced into competitive conflict. If funding went to them directly to jobs it would benefit workers much more.
Because the government has stopped listening to the people.
The short answer is that people are just awful.
I'm with you all the way, Richard. I too had high hopes that Starmer was just placating the media till he got into power but he has carried on along the same road. We need a new party to be formed by those on the left from the Greens LibDems and Labour. The trouble is , "power corrupts"😟
Please define far right, because that is the subject matter here, and also because in last 2 months me, and millions of other people, have suddenly found out that we are deemed far right.
If you look like a duck and quack like one then you probably are one.
@@abody499 seething arent you
@@beandinner1262 If you are a hammer. everything looks like a nail.
Far right generally in this case based on ultra-nationalist and nativist tendencies.
Not all critiques of immigration are far right, it depends on the substance of the critique.
A not far right critique notes the reason for immigration in the context of neoliberalism and the way it is cheaper to import workers than support them from birth (ie let the market do this, not public health and schools so we don't need to invest in them etc)
A far right critique involves scapegoating migrants for economic problems they didn't cause, using racist stereotypes in this argument and the idea that there is a static national culture that must remain pure and can't exist without specific other cultures for some reason.
So whether you are far right depends on the above. A lot of rhetoric is closer to the former rather than the latter. Far right leaders will convince you that you can improve living conditions by stopping immigration but not changing the way the economy operates.
@@abody499 what are you even talking about.
You nailed it: people in Europe voted for social democrats (e.g. in the UK and Germany) in the late 90s, but instead got more neoliberal governments than ever before, which made many people loose faith in democracy altogether.
That of course doesn't mean, that facism would be a better alternative. But somehow the parties still don't get, that moving even further towards the right will win them back the votes they lost. We currently only have the choice between right and far-right.
Because they are not far right.
@@rdf098311 Ethnonationalists like AfD are far right.
There's certainly a recalibration of what far right means. I take it to mean totalitarian Germany, Italy and Japan in the 1930s to mid-40s. Now any hint of social, economic or cultural conservatism is deemed far right, thus removing the near-right in one fell swoop, along with groups like the libertarian left which comprised a massive part of British vote. The primacy of the nation state which was wholly uncontroversial for left and right until recent times, is now a far right idea. Tony Benn's opinions would, incredibly, be called far right in 2024.
Ethnonationalism is a centrist ideology in a nation state.
@@borderlands6606 nope
@@gordonstrong5232 absolutely nope, AfD are far right group and political group because its members are mostly activists nothing to do with religion, ethnicity, nothing to do with right wing, centralists, left wing, basically removing immigration illegal or not, same will happen here eventually
Exactly what is happening in the US.
Richard ..love your videos ,they give great insights into financial and political matters ,but I think the term ‘far’ right is being overused and misapplied in a lot of circumstances . My guess deliberately,to undermine any credibility of those raising concerns by making an association with those organisations that truly were extremists .I think the problem is that the centre and left have failed to address concerns of huge swathes of the population,people feel that they are ignored and in a sense abused by successive governments.
There is also hypocrisy..many of those with a liberal mindset support Ukraine and can be seen waving their Ukrainian flags alongside their support for such agendas as trans rights and mass immigration. I like Ukrainians and continue to visit frequently,but they are by no means liberal,for example try unfurling your rainbow flag there and see how far it gets you .likewise you will find the vast majority of the population are white ,like a lot of Eastern Europe immigration from outside of Europe isn’t very well tolerated. This is before we mention the azov regiment who still March under a banner that has echoes of the SS.
I live in Hungary a country that the EU like to portray as ´far right’ ,( I’ve not seen any evidence of this ,traditionalist yes ,and supportive of traditional family values yes ) but at the same time the EU and U.K. /USA continue to pump money and weapons to a regime in Kiev that makes Hungary look woke .
It’s this kind of nonsense that undermines these organisations’credibility and gives rise to alternatives,be they populist,far right or left or whatever term you wish to use.
Isn't that the pont of the video? He's not saying people are far right, he is saying the parties they might be turning to are, and so people need to be careful what they wish for. A very similar type of far right party became popular in the 1940s in the uk, however that quickly died off once the war started and people turned away from them pretty quickly.
To beat the " far right" a term which is banded about far to often in my view. You first have to defeat the neo liberal establishment. And therefore if you become a significant political force you will also get labelled by the establishment as " radical left" or something to that end. So the neo liberal establishment can maintain power. What a actually need to happen is all parties outside of the neo liberal world view that being left or right have to work together in bringing down the neo liberal establishment.
The big question Richard is why don't you support an end to mass immigration. That would put an end to the need for far right parties if the left only decided to listen to the people
You've fallen for the narrative of the far right.
@@fabfran4104And you're fallen for the narrative of calling everyone far right who you deem as a lesser person to yourself. It's counterproductive but you are too full of hubris to realise that.
The demographics of Leicester have completely changed in my lifetime. It is completely unrecognisable. Our capital city is minority natives. 1 in 7 people living in the UK were not born there. We are importing the population of Newcastle each year without building a new Newcastle each year.
Probably less than 1% of newcomers get placed in social category A, B, C1 postcodes, with likely 90 % being placed in the poorest 2 postcodes.
Now, regardless of whether such changes are good or bad, and without calling me far right, try explaining why our leaders have transformed our cities in such a short time, and why it is mainly the poorest postcodes that were transformed by them, not their own.
@@daveisbrill Its simple. The Middle Class dont care where their servile need meeters come from.
Until its too late.
Mass migration is not a bug of neoliberalism, it's a feature
@@fabfran4104 I've yet to hear a convincing narrative for mass migration from the left especially in a nation that has not made a fiscal surplus in 24 years. I would sort profitability first before increasing the size of Britain plc or you just only succeed in increasing the size of your troubles