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Six Degrees of Reform UK – Mapping the UK's Entrepreneurial Far Right

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Re: Six Degrees of Reform UK – Mapping the UK's Entrepreneurial Far Right

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There's healthy skepticism about vaccine side effects, and then there are these antics: > On 11 January 2023, Bridgen had the Conservative whip suspended after tweeting about COVID-19 vaccines: "As one consultant cardiologist said to me, this is the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust." Bridgen claimed the tweet had been moderated by staff members, which was denied by a Conservative Party spokesman.[84…

Like I said, he's a hero

Lol, no.

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Not that I care politics but one should think why reform and why the label "far right"? Why now?

By 2024 standards, saying that a man cannot be pregnant, or that illegally coming into a country is... well, illegal, is enough to be "far-right".

Interestingly one of the very few other political parties that understand women to be female and men to be male - the Party Of Women - is also a limited company, just like Reform is: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

Maybe this is the new standard for parties of protest against the neoliberal consensus?

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Agreed they're using the term 'far right' without basis - the BNP, Britain First, and other groups that use violence are far right. These are parties that are concerned about immigration. But the 'hack' and bad language won't get you far on HN. Just flag the post and move on.

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There's healthy skepticism about vaccine side effects, and then there are these antics: > On 11 January 2023, Bridgen had the Conservative whip suspended after tweeting about COVID-19 vaccines: "As one consultant cardiologist said to me, this is the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust." Bridgen claimed the tweet had been moderated by staff members, which was denied by a Conservative Party spokesman.[84…

He didn't make the statement, he retweeted a professor from an Israeli university who made the statement.

It doesn't seem to matter, there's another post alleging Bridgen said vaccine = holocaust 2.0. They've been radicalized to attack when they hear trigger words.

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The correct axis is free vs. anti-free. If you map your ideology on economic freedom vs. government control of the economy, and personal freedom vs. government control of your body, then you get a quadrant rather than a left-right divide.

If you support personal liberty and economic freedom, you are a libertarian. But you would be labeled "far right" by many.

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No other political parties are constructed as a limited company controlled by a single person, that's what's so interesting about Reform.

Maybe I missed something in the article, but it goes through the companies office finding companies based on the names of key Reform UK members. Couldn’t the same be done for other major members of the other major UK parties?

Quite possibly. The same could be done with the Register of Members' Interests. But again, Reform is unusual in that it has no internal democracy and is basically the Richard Tice party.

Buying your way into British politics is very cheap. He'll get maybe 15% of the vote and no seats in exchange for spending an amount 1/100th of a minor US senate seat race.

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Agreed they're using the term 'far right' without basis - the BNP, Britain First, and other groups that use violence are far right. These are parties that are concerned about immigration. But the 'hack' and bad language won't get you far on HN. Just flag the post and move on.

Racial slur against Prime Minister Rishi Sunak: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckmg1mldk0mo

"Britain should have accepted Nazi offer": https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/10/ref...

We all know immigration = anyone who isn't white living in the country.

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