Is the rise of the Far Right inevitable?

The rise of fair minded people would be welcome....

No the rise of the average person being labled" far righ" t in response to the rise of the extreme far left is inevitable. Get it right.

You noticed that, too, huh?

The only sad part of tories being out is that all my fave political comedians have no new inspo for new jokes every other day.

There is one possibility.. that Trumpists allow the Christian right to take over and back the UK far right as the US is the only viable trading partner now the EU will not allow us to rejoin.

Nope it ain't 👎

I'd vote for Right Said Fred though

If only it weren't for the existence of suffrage!

I’m going to say yes, unfortunately it is (in time).

The majority of the voting populace are dim. That’s a scientific fact, it’s the bell curve.

They don’t take their opinion from The Sun or The Mirror or The Mail anymore. They take it from social media.

That is why and how populism exists.

Productivity is at an all-time low, dropping further and inequality is amplifying.

First, in the UK, we’ll go through the Labour (aka “not-Tory”) effort.

They may get it right and stay firmly central, in which case we stand a little chance of getting off our knees.

They may get it wrong and try to grab from the wealthy and well-off to spend spend spend, in which case we’ll fail miserably by killing business and entrepreneurial spirit even more.

Unfortunately the odds of this are quite high, despite their low vote share they will tend to focus on the size of their seat majority.

Because socialism will fail hard in the UK, the more socialist the efforts the harder the swing right will be.

Starmer needs to dance carefully if we are to avoid a hard right upsurge.

Unfortunately this fear by lefties sticks a further nail in the coffin of actual democracy, ie proportional representation.

Farage is certainly the BBC candidate, he's constantly on question time and various other politics shows, I'm surprised he hasn't been put on to host Have I Got News for You, like they did when they were pushing Johnson.
When are we going to get a proper regulator to rein these people in and hire some proper BBC editors and journalists?

Thoughts and prayers to Laura Kuensberg at this difficult time.

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If his name is Matt Green then his channel name is 66% accurate.

Without engagement farming, how would the press survive?

A huge lesson from Wallonia (the southern part of Belgium), there on the media there is almost no reporting about the ultra right. Only factial news, but no spewing of lies. And what do you see: ultra right is almost non existing in that part of the country.

😂 😂😂 Brilliant!

Very true. I’ve heard foe 20 years now how Le Pen is on the verge of taking over France any day now.

This us exactly right, well said and with humour!👏👏👏

Lovely unbiased reporting 😂

Don't be scared of the hard right, guess they have limited appeal after all, I think is the message.

I totally agree with this sketch, I just don't know what's wrong with the media, they need Nigel Farage but we need stability

Agent Smith says so.

I admit I was slightly concerned you might struggle for material with the grown ups in charge, but this is right up there with your best work. Excellent stuff, Matt.
Almost like you're a professional & you've been doing this for years...

Far right used to be called moms and dads politics. You know old fashioned stuff, twp gendes, maybe not allow a certain faith free for all the border, carbon is a primary element ( world is carbon based) CO2 is a secondary element (plant food) . All this gets you could a homophobic, racist right wing nxzx these days.

Right said Fred peaked some years ago. It turned out to be just too sexy for the electorate.

I love boring Politics that just gets things done.

Brilliant, one of your best Matt.

Poland has been there done that and moved on. Hungary is getting fed up of Orban. Meloni had to tone it down once faced with the actual job of running a country. Other countries are behind the curve, next German GE could be interesting and Le Pen will be itching for another crack at the French presidentials. For the far right it's always easy to snipe from the sidelines, that's Farage's speciality, keeping himself in the news and the money ( getting the odd seat in parliament whether Strasboug or Westminster along with the pensions that follow is the cherry on the cake for him). The biased press problem is arguably worse here than some european countries but hardly unique.

A brilliant critique of current political reporting.

Fascism, populism, authoritarianism does not come from the voters. The BNP made virtually no inroads to being normalised on this country because they were working class.

It’s only when the wealthy “go bad” that the four strands of power decide to back such movements

Religion
Media
Politics
Business

Thankfully in this country religion NEVER will but the other three are a concern.

I’m so glad Matt is satirising this. So much coverage about how many seats Reform got, but it was a third the number they were projected to win. Lib Dems, on the other hand, absolutely cleaned up. The Greens got more seats than ever, but not a word about that.

I get that Reform got a lot of votes, but you do actually have to win your little bit of the country. And I’d wager a lot of right wing voters just went that way because a Labour victory had been predicted for years. They may well drift back to the conservatives in the next election.

Strictly impartial 😂😂😂 yup

politics SHOULD be "boring" ie things work; thing get done; things are predictable

It's time to talk about the inexorable rise of moderation and competence. There is the very real threat of people trying to fill in potholes without addressing the question of whether instamac is, or is not, woke.

Definitely a BBC reporter 👎😡

Nice one Matt, but you kinda missed the point of what happened in the French elections. Because although the left and centrists worked together to block the Front National (changing the name doesn't change anything, just ask Windscale, or Twitter), they still managed to get more votes than any other party.

Come to sunny France, where 2 people out of every 5 voted for a party formed by a multi-convicted racist and anti-semitic holocaust denier...

I'd have thought Farage will be delighted to only have 4 seats, so he can keep playing the 'victim of the woke establishment card'. The last thing he wants is to have actual power, as then people will find out just how worthless his promises and easy solutions are. Also with only 4 MPs there will probably be a couple of weeks every year when none of them are outed making racist or antisemitic tweets. With 13 of them there'd be no time for any other news.

You'll never be a journalist, not with that level of self awareness!

😂😂😂

The inevitable rise of the wrong, will not be permitted.

That last line - if only it wasn't what we're all thinking 😶

HOW DARE YOU besmirch the name of Right Said Fred!!! Salty propaganda from a man who is categorically not too sexy for his shirt 😡

In all honesty, if it wasn't for Reform, Labour wouldn't have won, they split the Right votes instead of them all going to the Torys.

“Blocked” - he is not wrong there, this is the actual headline in Telegraph: “Le Pen’s party blocked from power” - wtf is blocked? People simply didn’t vote for her or rather voted against her, how is that blocked?

Fabulous 😁👍
Let’s see what traction the political class offers for many more hilarious and so to the point videos…thanks for your spectacular performance and pointiert & charming wit 💯👍👌

I'd laugh but the media are leading with the opinion that the Tories lost because they were too liberal.

Thank you for that. Seriously, the Tories have just been all but vaporised, yet all weekend long there were on every bloody show, in ever blinkin' social media feed. I mean, even Van Helsing managed to see of Count Dracula once!! What's going on! It's a dependency culture, isn't it. The media have been Stockhausen'd.

If you're going to give us time to stop laughing, we're going to need a lot longer for that one!


To answer the question though: It can't be avoided -it has to be confronted

Sums up the media and comedy perfectly.
Find a different subject (or job) to excite you.
OUR LIVES ARE NOT GAMES!
Please keep Drama out of politics.

Don't forget about Poland. They turned their country around despite the far right controlling the vast majority of the media.

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