You’re a Bigot

It was the inference expressed in public by a friend of mine recently that I was a “bigot”, to add to my existing “abhorrent racist” label (see my previous post, ‘Anti-Muslim Hostility’), which made me think about how those on the Left of the political spectrum tend to handle debate. Both my “abhorrent racist” and “bigot” accusers, Anas Sarwar (Leader of the Labour Party in Scotland) and A N Other respectively, reside on the Left-hand side of the political spectrum.

It’s interesting how those of a Lefty, liberal, socialist, woke, so-called “progressive” disposition tend to define their opinions as primarily virtuous; you’re a good person if you hold Lefty political views. However, if you tend towards the Right, conservative (small “c”), libertarian, capitalist end of the political spectrum – as I do – then you’re just plain nasty; you’re a “bigot” as my friend implied of me.

Incidentally, some might consider it to be conceited to assume the moral high ground over those with whom one disagrees about their political opinions.

The Green Party and Reform UK

Lefties often get shirty pretty quickly when their political opinions are challenged. They’re not terribly good at playing the ball, ie arguing the Left’s case cogently and compellingly. Instead, they move swiftly to play the man and resort to ad hominem attacks in an attempt to make the overriding, intellectually vacuous and rather juvenile point that “Left is good, Right is evil”. The point is that you should always lean or vote Left politically. To do otherwise is to expose yourself as evidently being a bad person; a “bigot” in my case. Just look at the untold degree of unsubstantiated character assassination that Nigel Farage gets slung at him from the Left.

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is a right-wing political party. Reform UK is now the largest political party in the country with over 269,000 members. I’m a member of Reform UK. Reform UK’s left-wing equivalent is the Green Party. The Green Party is further to the left of the political spectrum than the Labour Party (which has fewer than 250,000 members today) in the same way that, arguably, Reform UK is to the right of the Conservative Party. The Green Party has 184,000 members. So, throughout the land, of those people who choose to take an active interest in distinctly Left-or-Right politics by joining a political party, for every 100 angels (members of the Green Party), there are 146 bigots (members of Reform UK).

The Uniparty

In the middle of the political spectrum is what is often referred to today as the Uniparty: the social democratic, visionless mush comprising a combination of the Conservative and Labour Parties. For the past 30 years at least, ie for pretty much a generation, between them, the Conservative Party and the Labour Party have trashed this country, economically, politically and socially. You couldn’t slip a cigarette paper between their policies and, not surprisingly, their party memberships are falling by the day. Incidentally, in my next post, I shall explain what I mean when I say that the Uniparty has trashed the country within a generation.

The Next Government

Small wonder, then, that opinion polls are now indicating that were there to be a General Election tomorrow, Reform UK would gain anywhere between 335 and 457 seats in Parliament where 326 seats are needed to win a majority and form the government of the day. One can imagine those on the Left of the political spectrum reading this post positively losing their minds at the prospect of Parliament being fundamentally evil, for that’s how the Left would view it. The fact that over 15 million British people would have voted for Reform UK for this to be the case would not stop the Left from characterising those of us on the Right as being innately wicked. Compare this to the last General Election when just 20% of the electorate – 9.7 million people, angels all of them, of course – voted for Labour and, therefore, the current government. Clearly, the remaining 38.5 million British voters are bad people.

Fascism

The Labour government and Labour and Conservative councils up and down the land are now desperate to maintain the virtuosity of the Kingdom by scrubbing democracy and cancelling elections in 29 English council areas. This is ostensibly to allow for local government reorganisation but is in reality to prevent bigots from voting Reform UK into power at the local level.

Fascism can be described in many ways; there’s really no single definition of the term. However, common themes of fascism include authoritarian leadership, suppression of opposition, anti-individualism and state control. It’s interesting to note the extent to which Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his Labour government tick those boxes. Ironic too that the Left, which sees itself as inherently virtuous, is never in fact too far from fascism. Perhaps this could be why the British people are evidently turning distinctly to the Right of politics these days, shunning accusations of bigotry and other defamatory adjectives, and finding Reform UK’s clarion call of family, community and country as rather appealing.