Hi Gary, sorry to keep ratioing you, and I suspect I will do it again.
I only had to listen to 29 seconds to put this together because you revealed yourself by calling Reform the "far-right party". Perhaps after 29 seconds there is some sense in there, maybe I'll come back to it, anyway....
Let me first say, I am not a huge fan of Reform, but I am also not a fan of branding everything you dislike as far-right.
Far-right politics, historically, means authoritarianism, racial supremacy, political violence, suppression of opposition and/or rejection of democracy itself. Agreed?
So Reform then, well they support elections, free speech, lower taxes, border control and reducing the size of the state. You can dislike those ideas all you want, but they are mainstream positions held by millions of voters across democratic countries.
Ironically Gary, or perhaps not, but parts of the modern far-left openly flirt with some of what you have branded:
- Censorship and deplatforming
- Punishing dissent
- Political intimidation
- Opponents as morally illegitimate (what you are doing here lad)
- Expanding state control
You can see this in support for speech laws, attempts to silence academics and journalists, aggressive cancellation campaigns and the belief that certain views should be excluded from public debate entirely.
Please stop this stunted intellectual crusade, it is embarrassing. We know the agenda, you just want to expand the state, give more control to incompetency and loot the voters.
Init.