- Oct 20, 2022
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Strange how one’s perspective of the world can change depending on one’s own political ideology-I believe yes, the last 25 years or so have seen passive centrist parties appease the largely left leaning so called liberal progressive agenda of open border multiculturalism.. underpinned by the EU and it's laws and policies.... this is what is driving the drift to the right on the continent.
My perspective in my last few posts is not relating to the UK,.. we are somewhat an outlying entity, our politics has rarely mirrored what is happening on the continent, as is going to be proved on Thursday.
I believe it was ( and still is) misleading to conflate ’Europe’ with an immigration “problem” ( as the far right and the Brexiteers have done)
One of the main reasons for a shift to the right in Europe has come from Centre right coalition governments in Europe appeasing the far right in order to hold onto power ( much like Netanyahu’s government in Israel for the past decade). The far right been more about anti-semitism and Islamophobia than anything else imo.
Europe has never had external open borders - only those within the EU/ Schengen area - the anti-immigration stance of the far right hasn’t revolved around free movement within the Schengen area but from an increase of refugees and economic migrants from outside Europe- which has fueled Islamophobia and Great Replacement conspiracy theories.