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The center (slight left leaning) party won by a landslide because everyone was fed up with the right wing party who’d been in charge for 14 years.

The far-right party went from 0 to 13 seats in a single election (think the MAGA of england basically). Since the center-right party lost so bad, people are scared the far right party will have more influence on the right and ultimately lead to the center right party either merging with the far right party or being more radical to “meet them”.

One could make the parallels to when Macron won the election with a centrist coalition a couple years ago, but in the process heavily weakened the center right party, which ultimately lead to the rise of the far right.

Ignoring that though. The center-(left) government will be much better than the government we had before.

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Reform are right-wing, but they’re not far-right anymore than Jeremy Corbyn was apparently far-left.

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Nigel Farrage’s party is almost certainly far right compared to the status quo.

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Would you have said the same of UKIP?

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Yes. UKIP now are far-right (hence why you don’t hear of them anymore), but they were just a plain old Thatcherite right-wing party under Farage.

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I’m not being funny mate but ‘reform’ is just a rebranding of the fucking NF make no mistake. It’s three steps away from brownshirts mate that’s what it fucking is.

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Hysterical nonsense, but I expect nothing less from Lemmy.

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Two Reform UK parliamentary candidates have shared material deemed “vile” and in breach of the internationally-recognised definition of antisemitism.

Candidates of the right-wing party have previously shared on social media material defending Adolf Hitler, denying the Holocaust, conspiracy theories about the Rothschild family and Jewish financier George Soros, denial of antisemitism, and comparisons of the state of Israel with Nazi Germany.

Source

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Yes? There have been 20 candidates for the Green Party who were investigated for anti-semitism.

Let’s not pretend that cranks only exist in Reform UK.

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I’d say it’s debatable that they are centre-left. I know they are labelled that everywhere, but Starmer has made notable shifts to the right (or at least towards centre) from the slow left movement since the very much centre-right New Labour of Blair.

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Excellent citation! Thanks for sharing!

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Reform got 4 seats, not 13, but they did get 15% of the vote

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