Looks like it.
We seem to be importing Trumpist fascism.
The media bleats on and on about Farage – giving him oxygen. Strangely we don’t hear about his tax evasion or the tax avoidance on his £880,000 house purchase (Angela Raynor was sacked for far less!)! We don’t hear about his being on the far-right gravy train in the USA instead of representing Clacton. He’s not described as a sleazy fascist conman making a fortune out of division but a prime minister in waiting. Looks like the wealthy elite are pushing for someone who’ll make them more money – by privatising the NHS perhaps?
The media constantly undermines the government – highlighting its faults and glossing over any successes.
The far-right football hooligan Tommy Robinson(fresh from a fight in a London station) – a racist conman who is making money from his far-right connections – leads a Unity march to disrupt and disunite the country.
Elon ‘I’m an evil, slimy wannabe dictator’ Musk is stirring up hate and division and attempting to bring down democracy. He wants to import Trump’s insurrection into the UK. He can profit from it!
Then we have this other new Trumpist import – the fanatical, evangelical Christian Nationalists. They wave their flags of St George and carry crosses. Forget Christian vales of love and tolerance, they preach hate and division and want to drive the scourge of UnBritish/UnAmerican values out of the country – whatever the hell those values are – sounds like women back in the house doing housework and having babies and an intolerant imposition of restrictive crap on everybody.
In the USA (bastion of freedom of speech – not!) they are banning and burning books. They are spreading hate and conspiracy. They are waging a war to promote their limited views on everyone – controlling education, the media and undermining the democratic process. Anybody who disagrees with them is labelled an enemy of the state.
This is the garbage we are importing!
This is the obnoxious immigration of fascist ideology – it’s far worse than the immigration of people!
In America people are saying that they had never realised just how many obnoxious, racist, nasty people there are. It was an eye-opener!
We’re beginning to feel the same here. When I see these Neanderthal thugs, draped in Union Jacks and flags of St George, supporting conmen, slimy opportunist turds like Trump, Farage, Tice and Tommy Robinson, I wonder just how far can Britain sink?
Once we were a nation of values – freedom, tolerance and democratic rights.
We’re rapidly becoming a broken nation of nationalistic, racist thugs.
We fought the 2nd World War to rid ourselves of this! Don’t we ever learn?
Hey, Opher
How’s it going. Still doing well I hope. I thought I would check in and see how you are holding up. The far right marching like The Rolling Stones on London!! Let me tell you, those far right wingers. Not like us writerbeat people..
Hi Bareth, good to hear from you. I’m still sad that writerbeat went down! We’re all good (apart from despairing about the state of the world and rise of fascism). What are you up to?
I have been dodging bullets.. I was in the hospital 3 months for diabetes ( supposedly) and I had to go to rehab for a month. I got out and put out some new music on facebook. It’s pretty good…Turns out I was a hero when I was a kid and my Dad has been stealing my trust fund benefits..
Sounds like a rough time! Hope you are in a good place now!
Life moves pretty fast. If you’re not careful you might miss it. Anyway I’m fine.. I’m interested in what’s going on over there. What do you think about NATO and war with Russia? Are they still in a Cold War mentality?
Good to hear.
Russia and NATO are complicated. Here’s what I think: Putin felt threatened by NATO and wanted his empire back. Brexit had split the EU and with fascists like Oban there was a problem. Trump came along and the KGB had plenty on him. They worked hard to get him elected. They knew they could play him for the blundering, incompetent fool he is. Bribes work well. Threats are good. With all this disarray Putin seized the chance to expand, put in a buffer zone and increase his power. It went a bit wrong when Ukraine did not roll over. But they are still playing Trump and splitting the EU.
I think it’s because Ukraine won’t obey Russia, it wanted to split away. It’s like Hungary or Chekoslovakia during the Soviet era.. Russia and China are still authoritarian…
After the split of the USSR Ukraine became a full separate sovereign country. Russia had no say.
I think the treaty obligation is that Ukraine remain a ‘friend’ or else Russia wants to revoke their sovereignty..