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These parties are not far right for favoring cuts to immigration. They’re far right for harping on about native whites getting replaced and referring to migrants like they’re some sort of infestation.

> In a widely seen video on Twitter former UKIP leader Nigel Farage claimed that new census figures showed that "London, Birmingham and Manchester are all now minority white cities".

> “125,000 illegal migrants have crossed the English Channel in nearly 4,000 boats since 2018. You can use what ever word you like for it, but I think invasion is appropriate — and millions of people agree with me.”



That's being anti mass immigration and populist, not "far right" and I can tell you that outside of Western liberal circles this is considered a mild, if not matter of fact, take on things.

The Chinese even have a term for this Western/European ideology that is self-loathing and accepting of anything on the altar of "diversity" and refusing to face issues such as mass immigration: "white left" (and that's coming from a country ruled by a Communist Party). So, apparently most of the world is actually "far right"...

"In March 2024, the BBC called the party far-right but soon retracted its statement and apologised to Reform UK, writing that describing the party as far-right "fell short of our usual editorial standards" [1] (Can't accuse the BBC of being biased in favour of right-wing politics, I think)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_UK




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