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cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/world/p/1147975/exclusive-nigel-farage-filmed-undercover-celebrating-secret-new-foreign-donations

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm not sure about the voters of Clacton. They had the chance to know how f-ed up Farage is, and they still voted him in. Which tells me that they have a majority consisting of idiots (who do not understand what Nigel Farage is doing) and assholes (who might understand what he is doing, but still vote for him).

[–] reka@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Reform supporters for the most part aren't fans of thinking. They are scared specifically of people who occupy the same physical spaces as them who they see as not in their tribe, something which they learned from their parents most likely and then had reinforced by billions of pounds of propaganda via every possible media source the mega rich can access. Being concerned with anything beyond that requires effort which is not what they're in the business of. This isn't even said with judgement, this is just what's happening.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Reform supporters for the most part aren't fans of thinking.

Like GOP in the US, RN in France, AfD in Germany, etc. Right wingers everywhere love the stupid. Lack of education and understanding is the best fertilizer for fascism.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And they're all taking Russian money and getting help from the Russian troll farms.

Were Ukraine to drone those troll farms, you'd see a rapid drop in support for those jackbooted bulletheads across all of Europe and probably the US as well.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It’s more an Authoritarian thing than a Right thing, it’s just that currently Auth-Right is what the Epstein class are pushing.

The Khmer Rouge were as hard left as it gets, and the Cambodian genocide was almost entirely fuelled by the notion that educated city folk weren’t true Khmer.

[–] reka@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Probably a wise angle to take. You don't have to be an open-borders advocating, staunch socialist to be against authoritarianism. Quite a significant straw man, even if there's visible correlation in modern times.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's no coincidence that Russia is hard right, and so are its stooges in Europe and the US. Maybe theoretically they might support some left authoritarians too, but they don't right now to any significant extent.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Its like the us' mini me.