Donald Trump and the Far-Right Radicalisation of the Conservative Party
As the US President begins his plan for mass deportations, Kemi Badenoch's Conservative party is openly cribbing its political strategy from the far-right
Anyone wishing to know what is happening to the Conservative party under Kemi Badenoch, only needs to take a look at their official YouTube account.
At the very top of the page is what appears to be a new slogan for the party. Let’s take a look at it.
“We are going to give you your country back” is a phrase with a very definite set of associations.
Put simply, it is a phrase which suggests that the country is currently being possessed by a group of alien incomers, who must be forcibly extradited from the nation, so that it can be returned to its rightful owners.
It is, in other words, the language of the far right.
To see that this is the case only requires a quick look at Britain’s most prominent far-right group, the extreme Christian nationalist organisation Britain First.
Here’s a picture of some of their activists standing behind their own version of this slogan just a few years back.
Of course they are not the only people to use this phrase.
Another champion of it is the former Conservative MP, and noted Islamophobe, Lee Anderson, who also used it upon his defection to Reform UK last year.
Now taken by itself, you might suggest that this is all merely a coincidence and that the Conservative party surely isn’t deliberately trying to mimic the rhetoric and politics of the far right.
However, a closer look at other recent actions taken by Badenoch and her party suggest that the situation is actually even worse than it first appears.
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