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Farage Ltd and Similar Watch

I like to think I can at least understand where people are coming from, even if I vehemently disagree with anything they do, say or think.

But who the fuck thinks "yeah, I quite like Nigel Farage, but he's a bit mainstream and not quite racist enough for me. Tell you who my boy is, the racist ex-chairman of Southampton Football Club".
 
I like to think I can at least understand where people are coming from, even if I vehemently disagree with anything they do, say or think.

But who the fuck thinks "yeah, I quite like Nigel Farage, but he's a bit mainstream and not quite racist enough for me. Tell you who my boy is, the racist ex-chairman of Southampton Football Club".
2 years ago we were saying exactly the same about going from the Tories to Reform, now a shift further right. Will there be another in another couple of years?
 
2 years ago we were saying exactly the same about going from the Tories to Reform, now a shift further right. Will there be another in another couple of years?
I guess I just don't know what's moved the dial.

With the Tories it was easy to see. 1) Absolutely joke leadership from 2015 to the current day, all absolutely dreadful in their own individual ways and 2) If you're of the mindset that Brexit was a good idea but done wrong, then a) you're a moron but b) well it has to be the Tories that carry that can, by default.

With Farage? If you backed him a few months or a year ago then what has changed? He's the same dogwhistling, facile, 80s Tory cunt that he always has been.
 
I guess I just don't know what's moved the dial.

With the Tories it was easy to see. 1) Absolutely joke leadership from 2015 to the current day, all absolutely dreadful in their own individual ways and 2) If you're of the mindset that Brexit was a good idea but done wrong, then a) you're a moron but b) well it has to be the Tories that carry that can, by default.

With Farage? If you backed him a few months or a year ago then what has changed? He's the same dogwhistling, facile, 80s Tory cunt that he always has been.
My personal view is the opinions of the individuals haven't changed, but as one view becomes seen as acceptable to air publicly it opens the door to the next becoming so. People have been talking about bursting dinghies in their groups in pubs since migrant crossings became a hot topic, Leeds' image is just the public face of that. Ratcliffe's comments in the week were just a more flowery version of 'send them back home'.
 
It's almost identical here, services are being slashed and the working poor and working classes are being told to work harder for longer.

Being very generous some feel if money stops going to overseas aid, housing refugees, opposing the Russian jackboot, feeding the unemployed, then there will be more money in the pot for tax cuts at the bottom for example. That no one outside the top 1% would see a penny doesnt occur to them.

However, it would appear that those leading are sociopathic grifters exploiting the above, and the downright racist sentiment that was rare to to rear it's ugly head in public the past 50 years. Some are openly talking about removing citizens born in a country purely because the colour of their skin or where their grandparents came from - i can't say i've ever heard that kind of racism in my lifetime before.
 
The gammons problem with immigration has never been about refugees - they were just a convenient fig leaf for the tories - its always been about mass migration legally.
 
Also, I never engage with RL on social media, don't follow him, i am not remotely right wing, but i keep seeing his posts.

This is how it works, and this is why the narrative grows.
 
I get bombarded with him and loads of reform councillors and activists, but I do fall into the trap of engaging with it and then seeing more etc. I really do need to be better at just blocking them as I can't trust scroll on past
 
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