• ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝OPA
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    1413 days ago

    Is that the same security guard? Someone should throw a McFlurry his way. He’s going to need cheering up.

  • RubberDuck
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    213 days ago

    I hope this does not become a trend… throwing milkshakes at farrage.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝OPA
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      213 days ago

      I’m sure it’ll be fine and people will stop wasting milkshakes going for cheaper, home-produced options…

  • Mocking Moniker
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    012 days ago

    England was the first nation to abolish slavery, and now they have fallen into fascism.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝OPA
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      212 days ago

      We aren’t there yet.

      Most countries have an undercurrent of explicit fascism and the UK is no exception from Oswald Mosely to National Front/Combat 18 (I had a few run ins with the latter in my youth) to recent proscribed groups like National Action but they rarely gain much traction like they do elsewhere in Europe (Italy and France most obviously). Farage isn’t a fascist but he is a right wing populist and likely a wolf in sheep’s clothing (although a friend did go on the piss with him and reckons he is genuinely affable), which is a concern as I can now see a path that takes him to Prime Minister (as, I presume, he can which is why he’s standing) and that worries me as the right always have authoritarian tendencies that tend to start with quelling dissent then it escalates. So we may be sleep walking into fascism without a lot of people realising it.

    • @areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
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      17 days ago

      I mean by all indications Labour will win the next election. Reform by comparison aren’t even close. While they are anti-immigration I don’t think they can be called out and out fascists like National Front. Reform even supports nationalising some industries.