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STATE OF HATE 2024 - PESSIMISM, DECLINE AND THE RISING RADICAL RIGHT

14 Mar 2024

While some of this can be explained by also seen the continuing growth of a Radical more aggressive policing, it is also symptomatic Right ecosystem that includes GB News and The of the growing extremism of some elements Telegraph, The Spectator and individual political of the far right and the availability of terrorist commentators such as Matthew Goodwin and propaganda online. [...] However, the far right’s revived interest in immigration and asylum over the last year has WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST piggybacked on mainstream anti-migrant rhetoric Towards the end of 2023, much of the far right turned emanating from both the media and the Conservative their focus to the war in Gaza. [...] community (76%) are optimistic about the future, 50% The sharp cost of energy and the price of food are the higher than the national average, and two thirds (67%) two ways that people have been impacted most by the thought their lives would be better than those of their cost-of-living crisis over the last couple of years. [...] Of course, the border The most visible example of the growing influence of between the mainstream and the far right has always Radical Right politics in Britain is the transformation been porous – better understood as a continuum happening within the Conservative Party, most rather than two distinct groups – but a form of notably in its rhetoric around the issue of immigration conspiratorial and o. [...] announcements on scaling back Britain’s green targets While the group claims to want the Conservative and his public defence of motorists are couched in Party to return to the policies and direction of the right-wing culture-war language about environmental 2019 Conservative manifesto, its agenda is far more zealots – despite the fact that many of the policies right wing.
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