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- worldnews@lemmy.ml
House of Commons calls on Keir Starmer to condemn Donald Trump’s ‘interference’ in European politics
The US is engaging in “extreme rightwing tropes” with echoes of the 1930s and threatening “chilling” interference in European democracies, British MPs warned ministers on Thursday.
The House of Commons rounded on Donald Trump’s national security strategy, which stated that Europe was facing “civilisational erasure” and vowed to help the continent “correct its current trajectory and promote patriotic European parties”.
Matt Western, a Labour MP and chair of parliament’s joint committee on the UK government’s national security strategy, said: “The United States consensus that has led the western world since the second world war appears shattered.
If by keeping losers who run their mouths with hate speech in check, then sure.
UK and Germany kind of felt the worst effects of fascism and so have less tolerance for intolerance. This doesn’t seem like a bad thing.
Don’t promote talking-points originating from far-right propaganda outlets. This isn’t when remotely the same as the blatantly unconstitutional Gestapo-like actions of ICE thugs going on in America. Friendly reminder this administration is actively trying to remove political satirist from television by leveraging their oversight of corporate mergers and the FCC. They succeeded with Colbert.
Don’t forget all the publicly-funded universities that caved to pressure on bogus claims of antisemitism with protesters exercising their first amendment rights. Hell, some when tried to stop protests of Israel itself.
The popularity of Nigel Farage is a bad omen. For sure there is a lot of xenophobia and exceptionalism in UK. Not too far from what we saw made fascism grow out of control in USA. But you are right, it is not nearly the insanity we see in USA. At least not yet.
But UK suffer the same democratic disease USA does, with a very flawed democracy.
I think comparing a full fleshed surveillance police state like the UK with Germany isn‘t the most upright of arguments. The UK grands much fewer personal rights and is further down the fascist pipeline I‘d say.
What rights don’t Brits have?
I’m not promoting anything? I was asking if the UK is doing that
And I’m simply answering that they’re really not, or at least not in the falsely-equivalent picture you painted with the US. USA is closer to Russia in terms of its fast-track to authoritarianism. UK? They’re engaging in what many here claim to support: no tolerance for intolerance.
“I Support Palestine Action” is not intolerance. Simply saying that publicly is an arrestable offense in the UK. They dropped from ‘Open’ to ‘Less Restrictive’ in the Global Expression Report, an outlier among the traditional Western countries. They’re not as bad as ‘roving bands of secret police’, but painting this as just a quest against intolerance is nonsense apologia.
But you kinda actually know they aren’t, is the point
I saw some news about it awhile back, and didn’t remember full details so was asking. Just going to delete the comment since its being taken the wrong way.