
Matthew Collins: Taking on the far right
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Is There a Flashing Red Signal of Warning?
In Europe, we see the success of far-right political movements in mainstream politics. Is that a flashing red signal of warning or is it actually a safety valve? Fascists are still a very, very alien idea in this country,. intellectually, culturally, socially. It doesn't really exist. Electrally here, the far-right has absolutely nothing to gain. The last time it stood in an election, it got about one and a half percent. We've had nationalists, Nazis, we've had Hollywood Nazis. In those countries, you have to understand that fascism isn't particularly a foreign idea to them. Here, racist ideas are just reintroduced and repackaged time and time
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