Like a recurring rash, Farage keeps coming back, louder and more emboldened each time. But who let it happen? Who are the enablers—the donors bankrolling his campaigns, the commentators parroting his lines, the broadcasters handing him a microphone time and time again, and the botched policies of the other parties?
It makes you nostalgic for the days when it was just Fox News and of course its UK copycats – GB News and the Daily Mail – which tuned their violins for the annual “Easter cancelled” and “War on Christmas” symphony, where the absence of a nativity scene becomes a constitutional crisis.
In faithfully amplifying Lord Ashcroft’s latest attempt to cause political embarrassment, through the ever-reliable culture war wedge, the Mail doesn’t just play dirty, it plays painfully predictable.
Rather than courting the right, Carney gained votes by uniting the left, aided in part by Donald Trump’s unwelcome interference. Labour, by contrast, risks alienating its progressive support by chasing the right-wing vote. In doing so, it offers little that inspires, let alone galvanises.
The article predictably enlists a cast of familiar right-wing voices to make the case for British universities to follow Trump’s lead.
Expecting the anti-net zero brigade to do their homework might be asking too much.
Independent candidates are fast becoming the conscience of the left, offering a way to hold Labour to account. Their rise, like Reform’s, shows how broken Britain’s two-party system has become, and how ripe it is for potential change.
Meanwhile, on our side of the pond, the right’s crusade against ‘woke’ culture in the armed forces also hit a setback this week, when ministers scrapped a Tory-initiated review into military ‘wokeism’
While more balanced reporting noted the key drivers, Brexit, economic instability, the weak pound, a sluggish post-2008 recovery, and tax changes under Tory and Labour governments, the right-wing press chose a different path.
In Britain, we might watch the American political horror show with our heads in our hands, but as Right-Wing Watch readers will know all too well, the UK right has been following the same playbook as their American counterparts for some time. The goal is the same – to control the narrative, limit access to critical thinking and suppress any awkward truths.
