Eva Vlaadingerbroek has been banned from travelling to the UK

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https://x.com/EvaVlaar/status/2011480716165484637?s=20

I am seriously worried for the future of this country.

She spoke out about a man becoming Miss Netherlands which could be construed as a good thing but only if you accept the premise that 'Miss' anything competitions are good for women.
On the other hand she's anti abortion because she believes life begins at conception; she's a fan of conspiracy theories such as the Great Replacement and Great Reset; and, happily and openly racist. I don't think I care that she's been banned.

Absolutely. They can all fuck off.

It's not only X that has the technology to do that-Googles Gemini and Open Ai's chat GPT can do the same with the right prompts.

She is very vocal about governments having too much control-about farmers being pushed out of business. She speaks about the dangers of large numbers of men from foreign cultures where they view women as 2nd class, being allowed to settle in European countries. What exactly makes her far right?

FFS. Are you completely dense?

There are plenty of people in the UK who spew hatred on the streets of Britain, why are they not being kicked out?
Well we know actually but we will probably be jailed for saying it

Those lists are interesting. I wonder what Shostakovitch did wrong?!

The great replacement theory and banning all abortions are enough

That was exactly what I thought!

Do you understand what the great replacement theory is? I can’t lose any sleep over this woman not being allowed in to the UK. 🤷‍♀️

Have you ever listened to any of his music?

That made me laugh! Though actually I like some of it. Perhaps "like" isn't quite the right word, it can be a tough listen, especially when you know what was going on in Russia at the time.

Ah well.

She seems to be a proto-fascist speaker.
We as a country are trying to be on guard against the rise of that sort of rhetoric. It seems just as well to keep her out.

It seems they ban people who they don't like politically and it is very ideological with this government.

Yes, ideologically we don’t want people in this country who spout the whole Great Reset/Replacement nonsense.

No idea why you would think we would @snowbear22? Unless you’re a far right supporter too?

Katie Hopkins said she will try to get her in.
This is all we need to know.

UK governments of all stripes have used these provisions to bar entry to people they disagree with ideologically. It's not a 'this government' thing. The Tories also did it when they were in, as did Labour in the 00s. That's part of what it's for. This report contains more information.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn07035/

If you think the political likes of Shadee ElMasry, Daniella Weiss and the subject of the OP should be admitted to the UK, that's of course up to you.

We also refused to let this guy into the country very recently.

UK bars 'entry of Islamic preacher' over Hamas comments
https://www.easterneye.biz/uk-bars-entry-of-islamic-preacher-over-hamas-comments/

I personally am in favour of free speech, but if we are going to ban extremists it is right we ban them generally.

Only that raises deeper questions. What is extremism?

Is calling for deportation better or worse than backing terrorist groups?
We let arms traders into the country who sell weapons to all sorts, politicians who organise wars, but ban people who say things. Is that fair?

Suppose we started banning people who advocated oppressing women as extremists? Should we do that?

Anyway whatever happens the practical effect of this is she will probably get a LOT more people hearing her name and she gets increased traffic on Instagram and X. She is very digital aware and knows that being banned is going to be great for her views.
https://www.diggitmagazine.com/how-eva-vlaardingerbroek-uses-algorithmic-populism-instagram-construct-and-spread-her-ideological-0

In fact I just checked on X and her being banned post has 1 million views after a few hours.

So NOW we’re being picky about who we let in?

A little consistency from this government would be nice.

She hasn't even been banned, she's just been told she needs a visa. (Which I guess she might not get, but it's still not quite the same thing.)

what kind of visa? Just about everyone needs an ETA now

No. Not good. We need to have free speech for all (excepting, of course incitement to violence which is against the law anyway).

It only says he had connections to the Soviet communist party, but I thought they weren't very pleasant to him. Mind you I don't they were pleasant to anyone.

Extremists, rapists and terrorists welcome, woman with a microphone not so much.