Election Year or Fear!

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Not puzzling really, there are large numbers of people who are xenophobic, racist and misoginistic, who feel that they can no longer voice their dergatory opinions in public and Farage and co say out loud the things they would like to say themselves.

Add to that the hordes whose understanding of politics and reality is minimal and they want simple answers to the issues they face, so as we saw in Germany before WW2, its a simple tactic, to claim that its those "others" who are the cuase of your problems, whther they be immigrants, asylum seekers, people of other religions, the poor, the feckless etc. etc. Whilst ignoring the fact that the people saying these things are themsleves rich or funded by very rich people exploiting other people for their own ends.

I mean even a poster on here recently stated that immigration was uncontrolled, when in fact it has halved since Labour came to power.

I ‘get’ all that, Swale, but Germany in the 1930’s was a little different, not least in terms of communication and public awareness.
I’ll even accept that a significant proportion of the population (20-25%?) may be described as ‘xenophobic, racist and misogynist’, those for whom the likes of Farage, Jenrick and Robinson will always hold some attraction, but that doesn’t really explain the GROWING attractiveness of such transparently dishonest characters as Farage and organisations such as Reform UK.