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As Robert Shrimsley (FT) points out the Right (and its championing of culture warrior's deception of the country's problems) are completely misdiagnosing the real crisis the UK faces.
With stagnant growth (in general terms but also in household incomes), with a dysfunctional housing market, a stagnation of productivity improvements and service after service collapsing or in a crisis of regulatory failure, the UK's problems are economic no cultural.
Wilfully ignoring this is idiocy!
@ChrisMayLA6 I'd say willfully ignoring it is complicity. They know what they are doing.
Yes, that's a fair point
Exactly. This is deliberate misdirection - to facilitate the fascist playbook (clear "others" threat, easy answers, existential crisis)
The UK better wise up to the threat (esp with foreign interventions) very quickly.
@TCatInReality @ChrisMayLA6 I am reminded today we have an actual Russian Oligarch in the House of Lords dont we?
And how many of our politicians have DEEP connections to the USA? I know Lammy does, our Foreign Secretary...
And we have MPs (namely Farage) who were on the Russian payroll only a few years ago (via RT)
Dirty Russian money turns up again and again in the UK, US, France, Italy, etc - mainly on the right wing. But sometimes on the left too (notably Jill Stein in the USA)
Yet, nothing is ever done to stop it.
@TCatInReality @ChrisMayLA6 we need to clear house, whatever the UK did with all the Fash at the outbreak of the war, whatever is within the Law of course.
We fail to prosecute our traitors they'll end up owning us like Trump owns America
IMO, step one is to cutoff the propaganda engine. Ban Twitter, Truth Social and GB News entirely. Put severe restrictions on Murdoch papers, Facebook and Google if they publish false or enciting content.
@ChrisMayLA6 This is the crisis that neoliberalism has caused in all countries where its ideas have been implemented.
@ChrisMayLA6 Without reading the article in full, FT paywalls being FT paywalls, I'm going to assume that the Minister in question is a Labour minister, the current iteration of the party once again getting it the wrong way around.
I accidentally seem to keep coming back to this one as an idea- Labour don't *want* to any of the good things they were set up in the first place to do, or even feel there is a benefit to doing so, but actively resent having to do so and are only doing it to shut people up.
yes, the implication is/was that it was a Labour minister