I didn't label them far right, it was in the link;The mainstream has enabled far-right terror
Since the 1980s UK governments have overseen the systematic economic disempowerment of what was once called the working class. During the Cameron and Osborne austerity era, the government cut benefits, legal aid, healthcare (in real terms) and police and community resources, causing a decade of economic stagnation. Governments also marginalised the unions, the primary engine of working-class empowerment, and union membership has nearly halved since the 1980s. In the same period real wage growth has fallen from 4.4 per cent a year, to nothing. Last year saw the largest drop in living standards on record.
The UK is one of the least socially mobile societies in the western world. More than a fifth of people live in poverty. Many working-class jobs, which once enabled a single earner to support a family, have been replaced with zero hours contracts, with one in eight workers now in precarious employment. Guy Standing, a professorial research associate at SOAS, University of London, has written of “the Precariat”: a socio-economic group defined by this insecurity. This group may be angry and looking for someone to blame, but the far right is not a Precariat movement.
Those with the most to gain from using far-right tropes are the powerful and privileged, including mainstream politicians and commentators. Their narratives focus people’s anger away from those who caused the real causes of their problems and towards those who share many of the same struggles. And so, while migrants tend to make a net positive contribution (paying more in taxes than they take out in services), in a context of scarcity it is easy to convince people that “foreigners” are competing with them for jobs and resources. Such “divide and rule” tactics have along history. British voters have, at various points, been encouraged to fear the Irish, Jews, communists and black people.
Brexit demonstrates how ideas rooted in far-right discourses can influence people to vote against their interests to vote against their own interests. The Leave campaigns embraced conspiracy theory. On the eve of the referendum, Vote Leave “exposed” a “secret plan” to open Britain’s borders to “1.5m Turks”, while a centrepiece of Leave.EU’s campaign was a poster claiming Britain was at “breaking point” due to immigration. Brexiteers promised voters “British jobs for British workers”. In reality, Brexit caused as many as two million job losses nationwide.
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/far-right/67607/mainstream-enabled-far-right-terror-riots-labour
I commend the entire article to all, who think they are even semi intelligent.
One can draw inferences as to where dutton, is getting his lessons from.
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