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.
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.
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.
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.
Very clear and concise. I have always pressed my endevours against neoliberalism and dismissed the far right as insignificant jokers but this upload has changed my assessment. The problem I have being a Northerner in the South is Southerners don't know what a Neoliberal is and think a person of the Far Right as a well spoken elquant Tory.
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.
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".
You could solve this problem overnight by housing all new arrivals in social category A, B, and C1 households, schooling them in private schools, and treating them in private hospitals. That way, the very folks who want and benefit from mass immigration can share THEIR resources with them, rather than force less well off people to compete for said resources.
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
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
They got a plurality, as UKIP and the Brexit party did in the UK in European Parliament elections in 2015 and 2019. They didn't win a majority of the votes, even on a very low turnout. The majority of those who voted cast their ballots for parties in favour of remaining in the EU, and/or in favour of a second referendum in both these elections. Likewise in the 2019 UK General Election. Sadly decided by the distorting mirror of a first-past-the-post system, thus delivering the opposite of what was desired by the majority.
In general, Christianity spread through the Roman empire as a popular movement throughout its citizens. It was later evangelised to the Germanic tribes as a more sophisticated connection to the wider world. Islam, on the other hand, is an extremely stupid ideology that has only become popular in the UK because of high levels of immigration.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
@@apemoon1731 gotta love it when gammons think they're being countercultural say stuff like this when they're just repeating whatever shit they saw in a meme their nan shared on Facebook
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.
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.
They quite literally voted for a party that had a secret meeting to deport German citizens and has plenty of fairly open Nazis. I am going to call a spade a spade. If you´re going to have those views, at least own them and don´t try to weasel out saying "duh I´m really a moderate, I just support a party that wants to deport several of our own citizens".
Blaming immigrants for the issues caused by rich elites isn't reasonable. It's stupid and many people fall for it. Doesn't make it reasonable or correct.
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.
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 . . .
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.
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 books behind you are likely valued at more than the cars significant numbers of people can afford. Being in a lofty position makes it hard to really understand the worries of millions of people who live week to week.
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.
Poverty (economic) mass immigration (cultural). There you go. Left on economics, right on culture. That's the solution. It-s going to contonue. RN Francw when not if. Reform 25% vote.share next.May. people are sick to death of it.
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.
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.
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, ...
I think what is happening now is a civil war between urban white color workers and suburban blue color workers, or those who get benefits from low wage immigrants VS who get threatened by them. While blue color workers are suffering from immigrants, white color workers are also in the difficult situation where too many college graduates are competing each other to find scarce while color jobs. Bringing low wage immigrants increases managerial white color jobs and this is the reason why urban white color workers are all for mass immigration. Both sides are desperate to protect themselves, and their fundamentally different stances on immigration make it impossible to have unity or fixation, hence civil war is inevitable.
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.
Only just found your channel and loving your content, learnt so much from your tax video about the so called black hole. On this issue completely agree and been saying this for a long time, part of the problem also is how the right have managed to muddy the waters with slurs that centrists are communists/socialists etc. so that's what people think the left are.
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?
If people are living a fairly safe, decent life then the far right can't get people interested Just like you say - so economic fixes must be our first priority now
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.
Because they offer solutions. Now the solutions are shite but it has more appeal than the " We can't do anything" which is offered by our mainstream parties.
@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.
The "indigenous poor", lots of White Brits are of Irish descent for starters. People like you don´t actually know any history. It always makes me laugh when the people who say "I´M PROTECTING OUR CULTURE" never go to museums, probably failed their history GCSE and have never read a full book in their lives.
@@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.
Why must you always refer to right wing as far right? But never a far left such as exists in Canada and California. As like most academics you denigrate anyone with opinions that don’t align with your own. You name politicians you don’t agree with as far right. But you never name politicians such as Jeremy Corbyn as far left, which he most certainly is. You’re just as blinkered as the people you criticise if the truth be told.
Is that the best you can come up with? Property rights were established long before Newsom and Trudo came to power. They may not have changed the law yet, but they’re doing everything they can to tax anyone who owns property into the poor house. You’re getting confused with Marxism and Communism.
"But you never name politicians such as Jeremy Corbyn as far left" Because he's not. He's a social democrat. Far left is Marxist-Leninism-abolition of private property, full nationalisation. No one is "denigrating" you, they just don't care what you think because you aren't even close to being educated enough to have a proper discussion with about politics. Learn what words mean and people might stop talking past you and ignoring you.
Aside from what the Daily Mail would have us believe, 1) how exactly has immigration ruined people’s lives (or is it just scaremongering?) and 2) what precise amount of terrorism, or perceived threat of terrorism, has ruined people lives (or is it just scaremongering?)
@@jmshrrsn 95.7% of all terrorist acts since 1997 have been perpetrated by people who are not ethnically (english, Scottish, Welsh Irish) so it’s quite an issue.
I think a couple of important points are being missed: first, that since 1979 in the U.K. we have experienced only variations of Tory political leadership and thought predicated upon a Friedmanesque economic philosophy (this includes “New” Labour) and second, the notion of a heterogenous politics of “me first” appealed to baby boomers when they were young and this has been preached through working class families since the late 70’s (as in, getting my share) when socialism proper gave everyone e a share anyway. The idea of the individual hoarding what’s theirs is simplistically promulgated and appealing when compared to socialist ideas of sharing. So it’s easy, humans are greedy, lazy and/or horny and all marketers of anything need to do is appeal to one or more of these core human attributes. The Tories and the right do a very good job of appealing to greed.
@@johnmulligan912So, no far-right women or POC? Would you consider Islam as a far-right ideology? I’m not fishing to attack Muslims, just trying get to a more useful definition of “far-right”.
You said you had hoped to see a Labour government like the ones that you knew when you were younger. That is never going to happen because any situation that existed historically was a product of the events and circumstances at that time. Things are very different now for many reasons, which is why we had Blair, who was a radical departure from old Labour, and so too is Starmer. We live in the here and now, not in the past.
Richard gives a plausible explanation of why people are voting 'far right'. And hopes the mood may change. But at the moment there is clearly no alternative. Surely there must be widespread movement 'by 'the people' against these draconian, austere, punitive policies (similarly in NZ right now). After all it is WORKING PEOPLE who turn the wheels and make ANY COUNTRY prosper!!!!!
I'm disappointed in how narrow minded academia has become. In my view it's now failing in a core purpose of providing expert analysis of pressing issues as it's become ideologically captured.
@@abody499 i don't need read 10 academic papers to know when a dog sounds dangerous, to recognise a sociopath, to know when politicians are lying. or when professors are narrow minded. Engineers see the world differently to non-engineers, farmers see it differently to non-farmers, academics see it differently to non-academics in general and to working class in particular.
@@abody499 You've used a lot of words to make a series of evidence free assertions that couldn't be more vague. You've not said a single thing that negates the claim made by the OP outside of 'he's wrong because I say he is using big words'.
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.
I am not certain what Starmer is, or how you give ordinary people what they want without conceding some ground to the right, but on the whole I agree that it is necessary to look after the masses and it is in the interests of the haves to create a better deal for those who currently see themselves as have nots. I prefer growth and opportunity but can’t see any party delivering that given their current approaches. Often academics lack the know how of those with a less theoretical, generally less ideas and model driven view of the world. However some sort of collaboration between the two sides might be very productive for think tank style channels like this.
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
I think the political establishment have gradually and somewhat covertly abandoned cornerstone liberal principles over the last few decades. I think these principles still resonate with many people all across Europe, and they now realise they don't feel represented or served by this new style of globalist governance. The current political shift represents a significant departure from traditional liberal principles towards a framework that prioritises identity and collective experience. This change, driven by a combination of historical developments, institutional influence, and the evolving media landscape, has happened gradually and often without explicit recognition of the broader ideological implications. We now operate under a completely different framework, and I think people are beginning to notice that, and how that actually effects them. There are lot's of points that are ideologically incompatible. Like individualism vs collectivism, universalism vs particularism, free speech vs speech regulation. These ideological differences won't be solved by just labeling people far right. People still hold the same principles they always have, it's just now they conflict with the new illiberal status quo.
The answer is very simple. If you like the culture you were raised in, if you want to preserve it, you have no choice but to support a 'far-right' party. The western left actively seek to reform or eradicate their host culture (else where they don't do this, and are much more successful). The 'center' groups are all corporate parties and they remove any cultural barrier to their globalist ideology (hence their continued support for mass migration, even if ostensibly they do not). The only groups which pay more than lip service to western countries traditional culture is the far-right. It all flows from there.
We have been in a per capita depression since 2007. If we can’t increase product then we need to reduce the per capita. Or accept we are all going to be poorer, which I don’t think the majority will vote for at the next election
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.
The word 'Neo-Fascist' shouldn't be used. It means nothing and the phenomenon that it should refer to has different causes than historical Fascism. It's a shame that people link current right wing movements to the Fascist era. It also seems a coordinated media strategy with even the same litteral sentences being used.
I disagree with your use of "far right". I have always in my view been right of center but I am told that I am now far right because I support my own country and it's traditions.
What traditions are you supporting? Which traditions are under threat (if at all)? Can you explain how your "support" of your own country manifests itself?
@@grimsbyhackney479 The traditions & values that have been deemed racist by certain non indigenous folk. Supporting a country as a taxpayer is being eroded by freeloaders sponging on benefits & paying nothing into the system,I hope that makes sense.
@@jonathanlake6053 what traditions though? The UK gave up its traditions decades ago, quite enthusiastically, to become mini-America. Most of the work-shy freeloaders you speak of are far-right white Brits, ironically. 😂
@@jonathanlake6053 Which traditions have been deemed racist? Which values have been deemed racist? I'm sorry to have to press you on this but what you're saying is too vague. Can you please name one tradition or value? I agree that no one should be sponging, however, I get the feeling that we wouldn't agree about what we could do to make that not so.
I don’t agree at all with the statement that the conservatives are as right wing as they have ever been therefore Reform are far right. I believe the perception at least within the politicians that left wing politics is now seen as centrist.
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.
Stopped listening when he described the high tax, big state, Europhile Conservative Party as “without doubt as right wing as they have been in generations”.
I view Boris as a communist. Nobody is far right. There is certainly no far right party. Reform are what the tories used to be. Anyone who is a traditional tory has been redefined as extreme far right terrorist.
There are probably a lot of people that believe that, which is incredibly scary. In my lifetime the UK political parties have never been as right wing oriented as they are now..
You are probably aware of Compass, a progressive grouping that started off in the Labour Party but which is now 'non-denominational'. This and other progressive groups need to coalesce to form a true social democratic alternative. This could be an independent party or as a boost to the Green Party. Both choices have their pros and cons. I'm not sure how what the reception would be outside of the UK but I do know we don't have long to rebuild our sense of identity as a country and be in a position to manage the economic, biodiversity and climate shocks that are already impacting us and so many others.
One word Richard: patience. Personally I think this could have had something of a slightly unhelpful tone to it Richard - but to be fair to you I think you managed to avoid it. Talk about history, absolutely - but a good rule of thumb is not to bandy around the other H-bomb word (or rather, name). Hats off to you for this. What we want to avoid is too many drops in the ocean whence the tsunami of self-fulfilling prophecies can come. Also I see a couple of other editing glitches at 5:45 and 6:16 🧐
Sigh. You'd think an academic would have some knowledge. Mussolini was a Marxist. And as with Oswald Mosley, until the end of their lives both Mosley and Mussolini were stating that they were Socialists. Trotsky would denounce Stalin as "a Fascist". Stalin would denounce Trotsky as "a Fascist". How is that possible? Because Communism and Fascism are siamese twins.
More Ayn Rand bulldoodoos. People desiring a 'public persona' career will 'chop and change' their ideology til they find one that will advance their desire-path. The ethically driven activist will never change for the sake of their career, though their beliefs may evolve over time.
@@briskyoungploughboy Never read Ayn Rand. Never paid any attention to her followers. But anyone who pays attention to Lenin's "state capitalism" will see that it was the same as Musollini's Fascism and Hitler's Socialism. But you keep on believing when the State propagandists of the "liberal democracies" tell you ordinary people are "far-right" without the State propagandists ever allowing those ordinary people to speak for themselves.
Richard, i would love voter dissatisfaction to be a desire for a fairer society. Unfortunately the usual reason for voting for parties to the right is because of just one thing Opposition to immigration.
Mile End Road? Why does everything have to be so London centric? That’s already alienated the rest of the country. Have you seen the plight of Northern towns like Easington Colliery? How do you solve that? You should use that because it represents the unachievable, so if you can come up with a system that solves that you will be a miracle maker. We need to develop a system with collectivism at its heart. We need people to pull together and experience the pleasure of joint efforts. We need tough love for those left behind. We need to lift people up so that they can contribute. We also need to look after ourselves and look after our security and prevent ghettoisation and secularism that is causing so much damage.
@cogsnbanjo Let me give a more considered response over and above the more general comment I made to Richard's video earlier. Collectivism is what every government wants in that every government despises individualism. Perhaps what you need to look at more carefully is the way in which governments seek to undermine people more surreptitiously. For example; governments do NOT provide good education at a state level because it is counterproductive to the government in that a 'smarter' population asks smarter questions and the idea that the education system in this country, and other western nations, is actually dumbing us down is rigorously argued in John Gatto's ironically titled book, called 'Dumbing Us Down'. The illusion of the 2 parties being in opposing political positions is in plain sight...in that there is little or no difference between the 2, and neither of them are doing what YOU want them to do or anything close to what you suggest needs to be done in the North. The government, (of any flavour), literally has very little influence as to what actually happens on the ground, since the government per se, is controlled by a) the corporatocracy b) the military industrial complex c) the central banks d) big pharma e) big ag f) the mainstream media and the wealthy elite. As a plebeian, you believe democracy exists to help you, but this is NOT what the real term democracy means. Look up the definition and etymology of 'demos' and 'kratos'; you will see that what you are taught to believe democracy to be, is in fact not quite accurate. We are all at the bottom of the pile because they keep you stupid, feed you sh*t that makes you ill, then when you finally get GP appointment, they then poison you with something that is costing the country more than it can afford. Gabor Mate talks about this in his book 'The Myth of the Normal'. Read more, my friend; start with 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' G Edward Griffin and then try 'The Racket' by Matt Kennard and then 'The Psychology of Totalitarianism' by Matias Desmet. Lastly, please please please stop watching the main stream TV news and buying main stream media newspapers and watch the UK Column News, which is good solid journalism and their website is very good too! Hope this is considered enough for you! Oh, one final book...'On the Importance of Civil Disobedience' by Thoreau, you'll need that in the coming months and years, I rather suspect! Happy reading!
The neoliberal centre, including Labour, does not primarily serve the people. It sees its first accountability to the Establishment by which I mean the core, traditional Establishment of the State, the markets, the megacorporates and, big tech. Being ambivalent, the general public is hesitant to voice criticism of the Establishment. The fear of destabilising it counts for more than the actuality of being under its thumb.
The far right believe everyone but them are far left communists but they are just right. It’s delusional and narcissistic as they believe everyone is wrong but them. You would think by now people would realise we need a blend of policies that work and solve problems rather than policies that fit ideology. It’s ideology itself that’s causing the division. What we need is the best of free market enterprise The best of communism And the best liberalism. Which most would say is more socialism but if we take away socialism altogether we end up with India which I’m sure is the envy of the billionaires class but I’m equally sure most working class people don’t won’t for themselves.
The point of those on the right of politics and the expectations of their voters is not that they will take power and pursue their manifestos to the extreme. It is that they are perceived, by their voters, to be closer to traditional conservativism than what has been on the ballot for the last thirty years. We live in social democratic countries whose populations will push back sufficiently against the right to ensure the most the right can do is continue to challenge neo-liberalism. This will, if successful, get us back to robust debate in our politics and the fight over ideas. The use of the 'far right' smear, and the disdain for Trump (who would only be around for four years, a mere blink of an eye) and Brexit, betrays classic elite thinking and the usual gaslighting of the 'hoi polloi'.
Which is more important people in your own country or immigrants the far right is the side of politics that seems willing to deal with this problem I voted reform this country is being invaded by spongers ??
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
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
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.
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.
Perfect analysis!
Its all about demographic change - europeans feel that as an ethnic group, they're going the way of the red squirrel
Very clear and concise. I have always pressed my endevours against neoliberalism and dismissed the far right as insignificant jokers but this upload has changed my assessment. The problem I have being a Northerner in the South is Southerners don't know what a Neoliberal is and think a person of the Far Right as a well spoken elquant Tory.
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.
Well spoken Richard. Spot on.
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".
I agree with majority of your assessments. However I was under no illusion that Labour would offer any hope or change.✌
You could solve this problem overnight by housing all new arrivals in social category A, B, and C1 households, schooling them in private schools, and treating them in private hospitals.
That way, the very folks who want and benefit from mass immigration can share THEIR resources with them, rather than force less well off people to compete for said resources.
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
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
They got a plurality, as UKIP and the Brexit party did in the UK in European Parliament elections in 2015 and 2019. They didn't win a majority of the votes, even on a very low turnout. The majority of those who voted cast their ballots for parties in favour of remaining in the EU, and/or in favour of a second referendum in both these elections. Likewise in the 2019 UK General Election. Sadly decided by the distorting mirror of a first-past-the-post system, thus delivering the opposite of what was desired by the majority.
There not far right they are just decent patriotic people who are sick of the Islamisation of their country.
@@doug6018 lol
I wonder what Europeans thought with the onset of Christianity?
In general, Christianity spread through the Roman empire as a popular movement throughout its citizens. It was later evangelised to the Germanic tribes as a more sophisticated connection to the wider world. Islam, on the other hand, is an extremely stupid ideology that has only become popular in the UK because of high levels of immigration.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Because anyone who isn't far left, or who thinks that men don't have periods, is classed as 'far right'.
Bravo
@@apemoon1731 gotta love it when gammons think they're being countercultural say stuff like this when they're just repeating whatever shit they saw in a meme their nan shared on Facebook
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
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.
Calling many millions of people 'far right' for having reasonable, mainstream views might be one reason.
They quite literally voted for a party that had a secret meeting to deport German citizens and has plenty of fairly open Nazis. I am going to call a spade a spade. If you´re going to have those views, at least own them and don´t try to weasel out saying "duh I´m really a moderate, I just support a party that wants to deport several of our own citizens".
@@MinimmalmythicistI'm a Brit. This guy is not just talking about Germany.
Here here
Blaming immigrants for the issues caused by rich elites isn't reasonable. It's stupid and many people fall for it. Doesn't make it reasonable or correct.
@@daveisbrill you talk a load of rot just based on "I think, I think", and not any actual evidence
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.
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 . . .
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.
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.
In another episode of "Anyone I don't like is Hitler"...
Oh dear. Is that really the best argument you can come up with. 😂
The books behind you are likely valued at more than the cars significant numbers of people can afford. Being in a lofty position makes it hard to really understand the worries of millions of people who live week to week.
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
History tells us what happens after austerity
In a word, austerity.
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.
Poverty (economic) mass immigration (cultural). There you go. Left on economics, right on culture. That's the solution. It-s going to contonue. RN Francw when not if. Reform 25% vote.share next.May. people are sick to death of it.
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
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.
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.
I think what is happening now is a civil war between urban white color workers and suburban blue color workers, or those who get benefits from low wage immigrants VS who get threatened by them.
While blue color workers are suffering from immigrants, white color workers are also in the difficult situation where too many college graduates are competing each other to find scarce while color jobs.
Bringing low wage immigrants increases managerial white color jobs and this is the reason why urban white color workers are all for mass immigration.
Both sides are desperate to protect themselves, and their fundamentally different stances on immigration make it impossible to have unity or fixation, hence civil war is inevitable.
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.
Only just found your channel and loving your content, learnt so much from your tax video about the so called black hole. On this issue completely agree and been saying this for a long time, part of the problem also is how the right have managed to muddy the waters with slurs that centrists are communists/socialists etc. so that's what people think the left are.
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?
If people are living a fairly safe, decent life
then the far right can't get people interested
Just like you say -
so economic fixes must be our first priority now
Completely agree.
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.
Spot on.
Because they offer solutions. Now the solutions are shite but it has more appeal than the " We can't do anything" which is offered by our mainstream parties.
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
Is not all economics
I agree, it´s been shown over and over again that far right voters tend to have pretty low IQs.
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_* .
The "indigenous poor", lots of White Brits are of Irish descent for starters. People like you don´t actually know any history.
It always makes me laugh when the people who say "I´M PROTECTING OUR CULTURE" never go to museums, probably failed their history GCSE and have never read a full book in their lives.
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.
Austerity forever 😢
Why must you always refer to right wing as far right? But never a far left such as exists in Canada and California. As like most academics you denigrate anyone with opinions that don’t align with your own. You name politicians you don’t agree with as far right. But you never name politicians such as Jeremy Corbyn as far left, which he most certainly is. You’re just as blinkered as the people you criticise if the truth be told.
Corbyn is a Center left democratic socialist.
Is that the best you can come up with? Property rights were established long before Newsom and Trudo came to power. They may not have changed the law yet, but they’re doing everything they can to tax anyone who owns property into the poor house. You’re getting confused with Marxism and Communism.
"But you never name politicians such as Jeremy Corbyn as far left" Because he's not. He's a social democrat. Far left is Marxist-Leninism-abolition of private property, full nationalisation. No one is "denigrating" you, they just don't care what you think because you aren't even close to being educated enough to have a proper discussion with about politics. Learn what words mean and people might stop talking past you and ignoring you.
Should have thought that was obvious.
Neo liberalism doesn't explain
1) people don't like immigration
2) the amount of terrorism
also, they're not fascists.
Aside from what the Daily Mail would have us believe, 1) how exactly has immigration ruined people’s lives (or is it just scaremongering?) and 2) what precise amount of terrorism, or perceived threat of terrorism, has ruined people lives (or is it just scaremongering?)
@@jmshrrsn 95.7% of all terrorist acts since 1997 have been perpetrated by people who are not ethnically (english, Scottish, Welsh Irish) so it’s quite an issue.
I think a couple of important points are being missed: first, that since 1979 in the U.K. we have experienced only variations of Tory political leadership and thought predicated upon a Friedmanesque economic philosophy (this includes “New” Labour) and second, the notion of a heterogenous politics of “me first” appealed to baby boomers when they were young and this has been preached through working class families since the late 70’s (as in, getting my share) when socialism proper gave everyone e a share anyway. The idea of the individual hoarding what’s theirs is simplistically promulgated and appealing when compared to socialist ideas of sharing. So it’s easy, humans are greedy, lazy and/or horny and all marketers of anything need to do is appeal to one or more of these core human attributes. The Tories and the right do a very good job of appealing to greed.
What we really want is
genuine 'voluntary co-operation'
in self governing communities
How about a definition of “far” right?
Disagree with my political beliefs.
That's who the "far right" are.
Google it
He gave you a definition 6:26 .
@@Redf322 absurd
@@johnmulligan912So, no far-right women or POC? Would you consider Islam as a far-right ideology?
I’m not fishing to attack Muslims, just trying get to a more useful definition of “far-right”.
You said you had hoped to see a Labour government like the ones that you knew when you were younger. That is never going to happen because any situation that existed historically was a product of the events and circumstances at that time. Things are very different now for many reasons, which is why we had Blair, who was a radical departure from old Labour, and so too is Starmer. We live in the here and now, not in the past.
Genuine question: Who is actually calling for free market, nationalist, Capitalism with minimal government intervention that is not racist?
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?
I doubt Richard lives in Bradford.
Richard gives a plausible explanation of why people are voting 'far right'.
And hopes the mood may change. But at the moment there is clearly no alternative.
Surely there must be widespread movement 'by 'the people' against these draconian, austere, punitive policies (similarly in NZ right now). After all it is WORKING PEOPLE who turn the wheels and make ANY COUNTRY prosper!!!!!
Just another well heeled professor spouting off again.
I'm disappointed in how narrow minded academia has become. In my view it's now failing in a core purpose of providing expert analysis of pressing issues as it's become ideologically captured.
@@abody499 i don't need read 10 academic papers to know when a dog sounds dangerous, to recognise a sociopath, to know when politicians are lying. or when professors are narrow minded. Engineers see the world differently to non-engineers, farmers see it differently to non-farmers, academics see it differently to non-academics in general and to working class in particular.
@@abody499 You've used a lot of words to make a series of evidence free assertions that couldn't be more vague.
You've not said a single thing that negates the claim made by the OP outside of 'he's wrong because I say he is using big words'.
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some very shocking views in this comments section! Fascism seems to be picking up a pace....
Copy and paste one of the many fascist comments please.
Fascism is not a thing anymore, and it was a socialist Far-Left ideology anyways.
Go and find a safe space.
The short answer is that people are just awful.
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.
Because if you take cheese and rename it diamonds, diamonds become much less rare
your definition of "far right" is anyone who disagrees with you
I am not certain what Starmer is, or how you give ordinary people what they want without conceding some ground to the right, but on the whole I agree that it is necessary to look after the masses and it is in the interests of the haves to create a better deal for those who currently see themselves as have nots.
I prefer growth and opportunity but can’t see any party delivering that given their current approaches. Often academics lack the know how of those with a less theoretical, generally less ideas and model driven view of the world. However some sort of collaboration between the two sides might be very productive for think tank style channels like this.
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
No reaction from the trade unions, in fact they support Labour in its actions.
I think the political establishment have gradually and somewhat covertly abandoned cornerstone liberal principles over the last few decades. I think these principles still resonate with many people all across Europe, and they now realise they don't feel represented or served by this new style of globalist governance. The current political shift represents a significant departure from traditional liberal principles towards a framework that prioritises identity and collective experience. This change, driven by a combination of historical developments, institutional influence, and the evolving media landscape, has happened gradually and often without explicit recognition of the broader ideological implications. We now operate under a completely different framework, and I think people are beginning to notice that, and how that actually effects them. There are lot's of points that are ideologically incompatible. Like individualism vs collectivism, universalism vs particularism, free speech vs speech regulation. These ideological differences won't be solved by just labeling people far right. People still hold the same principles they always have, it's just now they conflict with the new illiberal status quo.
The answer is very simple. If you like the culture you were raised in, if you want to preserve it, you have no choice but to support a 'far-right' party. The western left actively seek to reform or eradicate their host culture (else where they don't do this, and are much more successful). The 'center' groups are all corporate parties and they remove any cultural barrier to their globalist ideology (hence their continued support for mass migration, even if ostensibly they do not). The only groups which pay more than lip service to western countries traditional culture is the far-right.
It all flows from there.
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.
We have been in a per capita depression since 2007. If we can’t increase product then we need to reduce the per capita. Or accept we are all going to be poorer, which I don’t think the majority will vote for at the next election
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.
The word 'Neo-Fascist' shouldn't be used. It means nothing and the phenomenon that it should refer to has different causes than historical Fascism. It's a shame that people link current right wing movements to the Fascist era. It also seems a coordinated media strategy with even the same litteral sentences being used.
I disagree with your use of "far right". I have always in my view been right of center but I am told that I am now far right because I support my own country and it's traditions.
What country is that, as it says you are in Spain with a British name?
What traditions are you supporting? Which traditions are under threat (if at all)? Can you explain how your "support" of your own country manifests itself?
@@grimsbyhackney479 The traditions & values that have been deemed racist by certain non indigenous folk.
Supporting a country as a taxpayer is being eroded by freeloaders sponging on benefits & paying nothing into the system,I hope that makes sense.
@@jonathanlake6053 what traditions though? The UK gave up its traditions decades ago, quite enthusiastically, to become mini-America.
Most of the work-shy freeloaders you speak of are far-right white Brits, ironically. 😂
@@jonathanlake6053 Which traditions have been deemed racist? Which values have been deemed racist? I'm sorry to have to press you on this but what you're saying is too vague. Can you please name one tradition or value? I agree that no one should be sponging, however, I get the feeling that we wouldn't agree about what we could do to make that not so.
I don’t agree at all with the statement that the conservatives are as right wing as they have ever been therefore Reform are far right. I believe the perception at least within the politicians that left wing politics is now seen as centrist.
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.
"colonised", this is simply bullshit, anyone who calls immigration the same as colonisation is just being ridiculous.
@@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?
@@daveisbrill "they would think there had been a war", erm only an idiot would think that.
Because we're awesome. And now the counter culture
Stopped listening when he described the high tax, big state, Europhile Conservative Party as “without doubt as right wing as they have been in generations”.
I view Boris as a communist. Nobody is far right. There is certainly no far right party. Reform are what the tories used to be. Anyone who is a traditional tory has been redefined as extreme far right terrorist.
Old labour has gone. Mod labour doesn't treat 'the majority' as full citizens and listens only to the neoliberal elite
The Tories are centre and Reform are Concervative.
There are probably a lot of people that believe that, which is incredibly scary.
In my lifetime the UK political parties have never been as right wing oriented as they are now..
You are probably aware of Compass, a progressive grouping that started off in the Labour Party but which is now 'non-denominational'. This and other progressive groups need to coalesce to form a true social democratic alternative. This could be an independent party or as a boost to the Green Party. Both choices have their pros and cons. I'm not sure how what the reception would be outside of the UK but I do know we don't have long to rebuild our sense of identity as a country and be in a position to manage the economic, biodiversity and climate shocks that are already impacting us and so many others.
Reform far-right? Pull the other one "Professor". 😂
One word Richard: patience.
Personally I think this could have had something of a slightly unhelpful tone to it Richard - but to be fair to you I think you managed to avoid it. Talk about history, absolutely - but a good rule of thumb is not to bandy around the other H-bomb word (or rather, name). Hats off to you for this. What we want to avoid is too many drops in the ocean whence the tsunami of self-fulfilling prophecies can come.
Also I see a couple of other editing glitches at 5:45 and 6:16 🧐
I knew it, you were a bot all along 😜
Pretending to care about the working class whilst simultanously branding them as far right.
Typical.
Sigh. You'd think an academic would have some knowledge. Mussolini was a Marxist. And as with Oswald Mosley, until the end of their lives both Mosley and Mussolini were stating that they were Socialists. Trotsky would denounce Stalin as "a Fascist". Stalin would denounce Trotsky as "a Fascist". How is that possible? Because Communism and Fascism are siamese twins.
More Ayn Rand bulldoodoos. People desiring a 'public persona' career will 'chop and change' their ideology til they find one that will advance their desire-path. The ethically driven activist will never change for the sake of their career, though their beliefs may evolve over time.
@@briskyoungploughboy Never read Ayn Rand. Never paid any attention to her followers. But anyone who pays attention to Lenin's "state capitalism" will see that it was the same as Musollini's Fascism and Hitler's Socialism. But you keep on believing when the State propagandists of the "liberal democracies" tell you ordinary people are "far-right" without the State propagandists ever allowing those ordinary people to speak for themselves.
Richard, i would love voter dissatisfaction to be a desire for a fairer society.
Unfortunately the usual reason for voting for parties to the right is because of just one thing
Opposition to immigration.
Mile End Road? Why does everything have to be so London centric? That’s already alienated the rest of the country.
Have you seen the plight of Northern towns like Easington Colliery? How do you solve that? You should use that because it represents the unachievable, so if you can come up with a system that solves that you will be a miracle maker.
We need to develop a system with collectivism at its heart. We need people to pull together and experience the pleasure of joint efforts.
We need tough love for those left behind. We need to lift people up so that they can contribute.
We also need to look after ourselves and look after our security and prevent ghettoisation and secularism that is causing so much damage.
What tosh!
@@TheConsideredMan Not a very considered response.
Yeah, I did think that about this “Mile End Road” thing.
The “Clacton Omnibus” might be a better analogy in the case of populist nationalism.
@cogsnbanjo Let me give a more considered response over and above the more general comment I made to Richard's video earlier.
Collectivism is what every government wants in that every government despises individualism.
Perhaps what you need to look at more carefully is the way in which governments seek to undermine people more surreptitiously.
For example; governments do NOT provide good education at a state level because it is counterproductive to the government in that a 'smarter' population asks smarter questions and the idea that the education system in this country, and other western nations, is actually dumbing us down is rigorously argued in John Gatto's ironically titled book, called 'Dumbing Us Down'.
The illusion of the 2 parties being in opposing political positions is in plain sight...in that there is little or no difference between the 2, and neither of them are doing what YOU want them to do or anything close to what you suggest needs to be done in the North.
The government, (of any flavour), literally has very little influence as to what actually happens on the ground, since the government per se, is controlled by a) the corporatocracy b) the military industrial complex c) the central banks d) big pharma e) big ag f) the mainstream media and the wealthy elite.
As a plebeian, you believe democracy exists to help you, but this is NOT what the real term democracy means. Look up the definition and etymology of 'demos' and 'kratos'; you will see that what you are taught to believe democracy to be, is in fact not quite accurate.
We are all at the bottom of the pile because they keep you stupid, feed you sh*t that makes you ill, then when you finally get GP appointment, they then poison you with something that is costing the country more than it can afford. Gabor Mate talks about this in his book 'The Myth of the Normal'.
Read more, my friend; start with 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' G Edward Griffin and then try 'The Racket' by Matt Kennard and then 'The Psychology of Totalitarianism' by Matias Desmet.
Lastly, please please please stop watching the main stream TV news and buying main stream media newspapers and watch the UK Column News, which is good solid journalism and their website is very good too!
Hope this is considered enough for you!
Oh, one final book...'On the Importance of Civil Disobedience' by Thoreau, you'll need that in the coming months and years, I rather suspect!
Happy reading!
@@TheConsideredManso the government wants workers collectives? Er ok
far right...pfft
I beg your pardon, but fascists were *left*, as far as I know.
The neoliberal centre, including Labour, does not primarily serve the people. It sees its first accountability to the Establishment by which I mean the core, traditional Establishment of the State, the markets, the megacorporates and, big tech. Being ambivalent, the general public is hesitant to voice criticism of the Establishment. The fear of destabilising it counts for more than the actuality of being under its thumb.
@@abody499 : difficult to say what the balance is between being timid of and being distracted from critiquing the British Establishment.
A socialist utopia! I live in Ireland believe me that is not what ordinary people are concerned about.
The professional management class is the problem. They are holding back change
@hubertusvenator5838 Make a Left party for the know it all 900 genders people and have a real labor party for labor interest
@@hubertusvenator5838 go back to old Labor not New Labor!
No far right Only far left
Thinking extremes only go one way is pure denial. Mildly political people don’t set shit on fire
What a nonsensical comment .
@@tonyt7948 what does that mean?
@@reallymakesyouthink- I’ve read what he said and looked again, but still don’t understand what he means.
The far right believe everyone but them are far left communists but they are just right. It’s delusional and narcissistic as they believe everyone is wrong but them.
You would think by now people would realise we need a blend of policies that work and solve problems rather than policies that fit ideology.
It’s ideology itself that’s causing the division.
What we need is the best of free market enterprise
The best of communism
And the best liberalism.
Which most would say is more socialism but if we take away socialism altogether we end up with India which I’m sure is the envy of the billionaires class but I’m equally sure most working class people don’t won’t for themselves.
The point of those on the right of politics and the expectations of their voters is not that they will take power and pursue their manifestos to the extreme. It is that they are perceived, by their voters, to be closer to traditional conservativism than what has been on the ballot for the last thirty years. We live in social democratic countries whose populations will push back sufficiently against the right to ensure the most the right can do is continue to challenge neo-liberalism. This will, if successful, get us back to robust debate in our politics and the fight over ideas. The use of the 'far right' smear, and the disdain for Trump (who would only be around for four years, a mere blink of an eye) and Brexit, betrays classic elite thinking and the usual gaslighting of the 'hoi polloi'.
Which is more important people in your own country or immigrants the far right is the side of politics that seems willing to deal with this problem I voted reform this country is being invaded by spongers ??