Rise of far right

[Sillyme1]

Any one else worried about the rise of the far right in Europe. Churchill once said ‘those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it’. Obviously social conditions are different from the 1930s, but there are similarities such as using immigrants as scapegoats (not Jews this time). Things can so easily escalate and I admit to being worried

Yep. If there’s a point just make it, the usual insults are tedious.

No-one has been personally attacked. Report it if you think so.

Many people/voters do not analyse things to that granular degree.

It is a fact that the FR have hoovered up discontented and angry voters who see current governments ignoring their (to them) fears about standards of living which encompasses policy in many areas including non visa immigration.

Non right wing governments/parties should be worried, and should acknowledge their failures.

I hope it is a wake up call for parties/governments to actually listen to people now and do right by them, not just regarding non visa immigration, but general QOL. It can be done and it should be.

I agree.
They don't exactly make themselves welcome, do they ?
Latest 'enrichment' -
https://www.hampshire.police.uk/news/hampshire/news/news/2026/september/man-charged-with-offences-including-rape-and-stalking-in-portsmouth/

Nuneaton (February 2026): Ahmad Mulakhil, a 23-year-old Afghan asylum seeker who arrived in the UK via a small boat in March 2025, was found guilty at Warwick Crown Court of abducting and raping a 12-year-old girl in July 2025. The case prompted widespread local protests and led to updates in official guidance regarding the disclosure of nationality and immigration status upon arrest.
Brighton Beach (April 2026): Three asylum seekers who arrived via small boats—Karin Al-Danasurt (20), Ibrahim Alshafe (25), and Abdulla Ahmadi (26)—were sentenced to a combined total of over 60 years in prison. They were convicted of a "predatory and callous" gang rape of an incapacitated lone woman on Brighton beach.
Tamworth (January 2026): Mehmet O., a 27-year-old Turkish Kurdish asylum seeker who arrived via a small boat, was sentenced to seven years in prison at Stafford Crown Court for raping an 18-year-old girl in a park.
Leamington Spa (December 2025): Two 17-year-old Afghan asylum seekers, Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, were sentenced to youth detention terms of 10 years and eight months, and nine years and 10 months respectively, for the rape of a 15-year-old girl in a parkland area. The judge lifted standard reporting restrictions to name the defendants, citing that a lack of information "stokes public anger".

In response to these incidents and broader societal integration challenges, the Home Office published a new nine-page guidance booklet and poster campaign for newly arrived asylum seekers.
The official documents explicitly state that rape, sexual harassment, domestic abuse, and forced sexual contact are illegal in the UK, outlining UK laws regarding sexual consent, gender equality, and acceptable public behavior. The government reiterated that any foreign nationals or asylum seekers who break UK law will face deportation and removal from the country.

^ I'll believe that last sentence when I see it actioned.

Exactly, where does all this nonsense end? Terrifying indeed.

And yet thousands of people clamour to come here every year, risking life and limb. Don't they know how awful Britain is?

Maybe the government should project onto the white cliffs of Dover: 'Britain is racist and awful - stay away.'

What about all the NHS staff we recruit from similar countries, where we have to tell them similar things about consent, FGM, LGBT people etc.? Should we get rid of them too?

@echt ,

‘That's what you think about you, but it's not the definition of a native population.’

Correct, that is what I think. That’s kind of the whole point of this site.

There isn’t such a thing as ‘the definition’ to suit all contexts. However, I would be curious as to how you would define it.

I don’t actually have a problem with the cricket test used metaphorically and not literally. If a country has no set of shared references or values, I don’t think it will ever succeed as a country.

Of course, it succeeds for the metropolitan elite, as they have shared international values. I mean who cares if you know who is on the plinth in Trafalgar Square or about the premier league if you know about what is best to order at Nobu, can talk knowledgeably about international politics and finance, and travel first class and stay in Four Seasons resorts?! That is your commonality then and it works in Hong Kong, Singapore, New York etc, as well as London. You are a ‘citizen of everywhere’z

However, that is not what the vast majority of the population can ever be or aspire to. You look at every successful country over decades (or even centuries) and they have national cultural references that they hold dear.

It is a very new (mainly British) left wing elite thing to ridicule people who take pride in being members of their own nation-patriots.

🤣 via his parents ? . Unless I was completely useless at biology at school, it's hard to think he'd be of Sri Lankan heritage via anybody else.

Or those people living next to a migrant hotel.

I admit to being worried

What are you worried about? Can you be more specific?

Obviously social conditions are different from the 1930s, but there are similarities such as using immigrants as scapegoats (not Jews this time).
I am confused by this, what do you mean? How are immigrants being used as scapegoats exactly? Could you give some concrete examples?

Making derogatory and presumptive remarks about posters' private circumstances is most certainly personally attacking them. They don't have to be named for that to be the case.

How does anyone "just happen" to be brown? His skin colour is derived from his parents, it didn't "just happen".

Very true.

It’s so silly though. And yes more likely the left resorting to it.

I’m worried about it but also not surprised. As @HermioneWeasley has said successive weak PMs have failed to make difficult decisions. The end result will be anarchy.

Yes, it's tragic. Yet the pro-migration lobby will argue: we've already got plenty of rapists, murderers and criminals, so let's import some more.

That and gaslighting.

Whilst it is lovely that you your major city lives in harmony. My major city is a no go for lone women. Having gone around 9am to grab a coffee and walk round the shops it is full of men who follow you round and are intimidating. They do not take no for an answer. I also do not like men in women’s toilets. I am what I would call a centralist so no way would I class my self as far right.

I parodied your assertion that natives don't exist in Britain.

Hear Hear 👏

The government is worried. Starmer described the far right as 'a very real threat' and Burnham has said many times over he feels successive governments have failed people.

We all know which posters I’m talking about.

There are many posters who work various shifts, don’t work due to disabilities or being SAHPs etc but we all know which posters I mean.

If you’re able have flexible working, how come you weren’t part of the protest over the weekend?

There’s a thread in politics titled Afghan women erased from public life. There’s a link with an article, read it and tell me what these people coming in on small boats will bring to our country given that most of them come from the same culture. It’s not far right to not want this for the country you live in.

Why is that a ridiculous answer. It's true. Read your history books you twit.