Which would be all well and good if they applied their standards equally. Keir Starmer literally gave an Enoch Powell-like “island of strangers” speech when announcing tougher immigration policies, and openly supported a court ruling which basically denied that trans women were women. The Conservative Party have also been playing a similar game of Simon Says with Nigel Farage and lurching much further to the right. Why aren’t Labour and the Tories banned?
I also think that singling out and pissing off a party that is (unfortunately) very likely to win the next general election is a sure-fire way to have your university defunded.
I doubt very much that Reform will win the next election. Class consciousness is rising significantly and Farage is very tied to ruling class interests, and he’s also too tightly connected to Trump, whose popularity is absolutely cratering, even among his MAGA fanbase.
My concern at this point is more that the Green party aren’t radical enough. My guess is that they’ll win, be kind of disappointing, then hand the reigns over to a party much further to the right than Reform.
TERF UK is sadly quite accurate.
Bangor University recently deplatformed a Reform MP and banned them from speaking on campus over their party’s association with racism and transphobia.
Which would be all well and good if they applied their standards equally. Keir Starmer literally gave an Enoch Powell-like “island of strangers” speech when announcing tougher immigration policies, and openly supported a court ruling which basically denied that trans women were women. The Conservative Party have also been playing a similar game of Simon Says with Nigel Farage and lurching much further to the right. Why aren’t Labour and the Tories banned?
I also think that singling out and pissing off a party that is (unfortunately) very likely to win the next general election is a sure-fire way to have your university defunded.
I doubt very much that Reform will win the next election. Class consciousness is rising significantly and Farage is very tied to ruling class interests, and he’s also too tightly connected to Trump, whose popularity is absolutely cratering, even among his MAGA fanbase.
My concern at this point is more that the Green party aren’t radical enough. My guess is that they’ll win, be kind of disappointing, then hand the reigns over to a party much further to the right than Reform.