Save for a few London constituencies he is no threat at all and particularly in Midlands and Northern traditional Labour constituencies. He doesn’t haven’t anything in common with those places apart from his dislike of the EU and that ship has sailed…
Sky’s framing - he’s a nerd who likes doing science experiements
Burried deep within the story - he’s a raging islamophobe who has vented about his hate for a specific local mosque was found with radioactive material so dangerous that it requires a specialist team to dispose of it when used in the military.
Searched around a number of UK news outlets for this story and the only one that leads with “wanted to drive tank into mosque” and “Hitler loving” is the Telegraph.
Everyone else led with “nerdy” or at best “mad scientist”.
Perhaps not winning the constituencies, but he can peel off votes so labour are at risk of losing - and perhaps tie up resources that they wouldnt otherwise need to. One only has to look at the Leicester constituencies Labour lost at the General election as an example of how this can impact things.
Its also another tier of ‘filter’ the government have to break through.
Should just have called themselves by an honest name; The Tankie Party. Its full of Russland-Verstehers, Assadists, China fans and flat out Putin Fan Boys. Because anti NATO and peace; wellfare and Putin (i.e. don’t mind sacrifing a number of weaker European nations to appease Russia) instead of guns something, something.
But that is certainly “Your Party” for a frightingly large number of dumb people.
Tankies are actually pro-violence. “Send the tanks in.”
I think the Corbyn lot are more fundamentalist pacifist.
The odd thing is that in a non-ideal world you would actually support a defensive alliance like NATO, because it should limit the size of any individual country’s armed forces. (USA excepted, I suppose).
I think you mean this one…there.. I mentioned it and looks like I got away with it…
The Home Office confirmed the suspect entered the UK in a lorry in November 2020, was granted asylum and leave to remain in 2022, and does not live in Home Office accommodation.
Meanwhile this other lucky guy got far more than I will get for my Winter fuel allowance..
Sky News understands Kebatu was handed a discretionary payment of £500 as part of efforts to avoid a lengthy legal challenge after he made threats to disrupt his removal.
That part is the most annoying and dangerous with the re-election of this cunt. From 2016 on, he provoked the emergence of numerous clones of him, everywhere in the world. And he’s now in the position again to give them a lot more energy, enabling them to grow and flourish.
Dutch election results, while complicated, is another example why letting the far-right dictate the narrative is bound to fail, only makes them stronger and instead adressing actual issues (other than just immigration, as if there was nothing else) is a far better strategy.
I would repeat the same thing I said about how Trumpism was present in the UK before Trump got elected. Bannon test drove the Trump strategy in Europe before he was able to utilize it on Trump in 2016. Trump’s relationship with Orban is not an organic one, but one he inherited from Bannon.
There are individual flavors to this in different countries, but the levers being pulled are not only the same, its often same cunts doing it across a range of countries and in most ways Trump is only taking advantage of the same forces that his me too international versions are.