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Novara FM: Britain’s Radical Right Are On The March

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🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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*Updated 19:00 BST on 26/07 to fix missing audio at 04:12. Please refresh or download again for the fixed version.* The demise of the Tories isn’t the end of the road for the British right. Quite the reverse: there are many whose extreme right-wing beliefs have been kept on the margins by the existence of […]

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The F.S.N. The Tories are down, but not out.

0:25.0

Still a formidable force in British politics,

0:28.0

they will now be casting around for ideas for their resurrection.

0:31.0

And if recent trends continue, those ideas will be to the right

0:35.2

where the party has found itself to much of its history. So what is in this teeming

0:41.5

space to the right of this Trump Conservative Party.

0:45.0

Well, there are some familiar faces.

0:47.0

Nigel Farage and his Reform UK Party.

0:50.0

Tony Robinson and his stream movements,

0:53.0

G.B. News, and its newly professionalised shower of shit.

0:57.0

But there are also some groups that might be less familiar,

1:00.0

patriotic alternative, or the Homeland Party, for instance, as well as those ideas

1:06.4

dumped into the right by the strange contortions of the political landscape itself. Everything is getting a bit scrambled and weird.

1:16.0

Everything is getting a bit conspiratorial.

1:19.0

Historically, the Conservatives have been a bulwark against electoral fascism in the UK,

1:25.3

while at the same time producing many of the conditions that give rise to it.

1:30.1

He is that tense relationship with the far right about to get a whole lot simpler.

1:37.1

To find out I asked Stuart from the Anti-Fascist Research Organization, Red Flair and John Merrick in editor

1:43.7

Adverso's books.

1:45.6

It's a conversation from two very different angles.

1:48.8

Whereas Red Flair's research focuses on the concrete

1:51.5

organizations of the radical and extreme right.

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