• Jackthelad@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Reform are right-wing, but they’re not far-right anymore than Jeremy Corbyn was apparently far-left.

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      4 months ago

      Two Reform UK parliamentary candidates have shared material deemed “vile” and in breach of the internationally-recognised definition of antisemitism.

      Candidates of the right-wing party have previously shared on social media material defending Adolf Hitler, denying the Holocaust, conspiracy theories about the Rothschild family and Jewish financier George Soros, denial of antisemitism, and comparisons of the state of Israel with Nazi Germany.

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        4 months ago

        Yes? There have been 20 candidates for the Green Party who were investigated for anti-semitism.

        Let’s not pretend that cranks only exist in Reform UK.

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      4 months ago

      I’m not being funny mate but ‘reform’ is just a rebranding of the fucking NF make no mistake. It’s three steps away from brownshirts mate that’s what it fucking is.

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        4 months ago

        Yes. UKIP now are far-right (hence why you don’t hear of them anymore), but they were just a plain old Thatcherite right-wing party under Farage.