Another one that’s not sure about what you’re getting at op, or if you’re posting in good faith. We’ve had a number of posters saying that they’re far more afraid of the far left or ‘wokism’ than anything from the far right, yet no discussion of what exactly they’re afraid of beyond that. Do it doesn’t seem like a thread where much balanced debate is going on, and you don’t seem particularly interested on them answering why they say that.
I think this, from page 2 sums it up:
I note these concerns suddenly seem to those on the right after it seems clear there will be a Labour government and the regressive agenda of the last five years, whooped on and encouraged in the mostly right wing press with Brexit, insulting our neighbours, cod racism in Home Secretaries, bullying civil servants and declaring the BBC as effective enemy, just might be waking up to the idea that this "vampires in charge of the blood bank" style of politics is not too pleasant if you don't agree.
The current government are in effect UKIP. Moderate Tories have been ejected and we now have the likes of 30p, Braverman and Gullis have a prominent voice in the government and media. Imo, these people are really quite right wing.
Where or who are the voices from the left or hard left that are In equal prominence or power and given equivalent airtime?
We also have the Telegraph, Mail, Sun, and to a lesser extent the Express, they are (again, imo) to the right of the spectrum in viewpoint. Those four are a very large chunk of print media in this country. Certainly more than the Graun,I and mirror.
We have Geebeebies and talk tv, again on the right. Is there a left wing equivalent? Perhaps some might say ch4 news, I would disagree though. I certainly wouldn’t call them hard leftists. They’re certainly more credible from a journalistic pov that the first two.
So I don’t think that those on the right have been denied a voice or platform, quite the opposite, you have a RW govt, the print media in its pocket, you even have your own tv channels.
There are also ‘political’ parties such as Patriotic Alternative and to a lesser extent Reform gaining traction. If you look at the comments left by their supporters you will see a very strong often hard right viewpoint.
What are the left wing equivalents? Momentum is no longer a force. SWP?
Antifa?
but the direction the law heads in is usually in response to increasingly disruptive behaviour on the ground
Perhaps, specifically wrt disruptive protest you could argue that the law is responding to that, but a great deal of law being formed by this government is the opposite of what’s going on, on the ground. An example: the voter ID laws. There is no evidence ‘on the ground’ that voter fraud is at all a problem when you look at convictions, and yet this was pushed through at vast cost and disruption. Most people understand the true reason- to sway the vote. And also the retained EU law bill that has thankfully been watered down. Massive potential changes, seismic even, and the only reason being was that those laws were passed when we were EU members. “Constitutional monstrosity” is how this was described in the Lords and I agree.
With calling people “scum” I agree that personal insults are never really productive, yet is there any difference to calling people “tofu eating wokerati” or whatever the phrase was? I don’t think so. And besides, I think the actions of some of the govt, ie Mone as absolutely worthy of the description “scum”. She’s defrauded the taxpayer and is swanning round in a private yacht now at our expense after stealing from the taxpayer. I think that’s abhorrent.