I most certainly have not come around to anything you say. I have not posted much because I have had a very slow leak from the upstairs bathroom which has flooded the MDF filler in the kitchen units and buckled the ceilings. The floors upstairs are saturated. I live in a disabled living extension and had no idea that there had been a slow leak for so long. The results of tests came back on Thursday showing the ceilings are an asbestos sandwich and have to be dealt with by experts. I shall need a new kitchen and bathroom, and am told the work will take a long time. I pointed out that my sight is going and could they be faster so I can see it?
That is another point. You won't have to put up with me that long once I cannot see to type. I can type fast still, thanks to the surgeon who operated on them. Being disabled and housebound doesn't make me ignorant, and I get lots of first hand info from the immigrant carers who are so kind. They are brought up in places - particularly Africa - where family care is automatic.
Enough of me.
You quote from dictionary descriptions, and quote what was meant by fascism over 100 years ago. Look at the social history of that time. By the end of the Great War, Russia had become a communist nation. The leaders killed the royal family and whoever of the nobility they could find. They wanted equality for all. Large palaces and mansions were taken over and given to the poor. Problem was that there were more poor than they had considered, and these palaces were too few for the population, and whole families had just one room.
In 1919 when you say fascism was first recorded, more people died of influenza than were killed in the Great War. People were poor. There was a general strike, the stock market crash. It was easy for Mussolini and Hitler to convince the people that it was foreigners who were causing the problems, because people had no radio or TV in those days, and very few had electricity, phones, indoor plumbing, outside lav if they were lucky.
You cannot use words over a century old to describe people you do not agree with.
There were no longer any rich, in Russia, other than the likes of Marx and Lenin et al. They did not use their wealth to run factories and give jobs to people, so there was no fuel, no food, extreme deprivation and starvation, because, just like Starmer et al, they thought the rich could be tapped to make everyone equal.
We see now that the government is increasing making everyone equal by taxation. First NI employer contributions, then farmer IHT, then taxes on property, increases on food prices is crippling us, and the food has gone up because there are not a lot of wealthy people. They are the ones who produce our industrial goods, our food, and almost everything we rely on, and transport costs and other costs has put up the price of foods.
No use saying we can import more food either, because that makes Britain dependent on other countries in times of trouble, and because the Houthis are bombing ships in the Red Sea, any food and goods we trade with the southern hemisphere has to be shipped the long way round, adding more to the cost.
Immigrants cost the taxpayer £5 million A DAY. That is what is pushing up the prices. The government is paying landlords and hotels a premium to put up the migrants. That means evictions of families. One of my family members has rented the same house for 24 years and has been told by the landlord to vacate.
There are others, single mothers, being evicted, because the landlord gets more money if the house is turned into an HMO.
The government one their case to keep migrants in the Bell Hotel. They were joined by the owner of the hotel, who stood to lose money.
Even so, why are so many people here and elsewhere saying ''bring them in, let them stay, find them houses, feed them, give them health care'' and so on, when the PM keeps repeating that they are trying to stop them coming? He has vowed to stop the boats, vowed to stop the gangs, paid Macron billions to contain them in France, trying to find an alternative to Rwanda.
Yet still, everyone who wants them gone and is campaigning is called a fascist by left wing extremism who seem to think that Britain is bigger than it really is.
Have you and your friends actually compared the size of our little island to the rest of Europe, and the places where the migrants come from?
What about Lammy giving 11 billion to the new Syrian government. Was he hoping he could send all the Syrian refugees and migrants back to Syria? Fat chance that, now that it seems ISIS is there.
You can give me dictionary meanings, quote dates, times and people all you want. The situation now has never been experienced before. You get all that info from Ai. Try asking google to name people who are fascist today, and you will get the answer ''Ai have not prepared that information'', or words to that effect.