This is a superb, excoriating piece of commentary on how the ‘New Left’ has driven many of the ‘Old Left’ (a.k.a. Working class Britons) into the arms of the Far Right. It’s by Kevin McKenna, a columnist in the Herald, which is a Scottish newspaper so one or two of his examples are from a Scottish perspective, but it takes in plenty of UK-wide issues and frankly IMHO is a must-read.
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Silence of the left over grooming gangs is a gift to right wing rabble
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Its proponents specialise in an ersatz Socialism which is about as authentic as purchasing a doctorate from one of those six-fingered, banjo-playing universities in the American Deep South. It’s all about the feels and the emotions and the state of everyone’s mental health. But they’ll say little of those factors that cause real mental breakdown. While they’re scanning their Blue Sky and Tik Tok accounts for their next trigger rush real people are being marginalised and dehumanised by multi-deprivation.
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Paywall-dodging archive link:
https://archive.is/2025.01.07-084141...t-wing-rabble/