Gove to name organisations affected by new extremism definit
Mar 13, 2024 12:31:49 GMT
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Post by notoriousnobbi on Mar 13, 2024 12:31:49 GMT
If Michael Gove really wants to root out the forces threatening British society, perhaps his party should look in the mirror
There is a far bigger threat to Britain than fringe extremists: Tory radicalisation
Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/13/threat-britain-fringe-extremists-tory-radicalisation-michael-gove
Good read!
... there are Conservatives revving ideological engines with a Trumpian direction in mind once released from the burden of government. They will not be listed as a threat to British values under whatever rubric Michael Gove devises.
Mr. Behr seems to argue that the Tories have to stay in power to lower the speed of self-radicaliation :P
But one thing is clear: they want the power - without the burden of having the responsibility of governing. The civil servants who remind them of that are seen as natural enemies. :(
Of course, democracies must vigilantly monitor traffic in extreme views.
Right at the moment there is an interesting legal fight at the Oberverwaltungsgericht in Münster/Germany about the question whether the AfD (or certain parts of it, like the 'junge Alternative') are a Verdachtsfall or even gesichert rechtsextremistisch . Thus different levels of observation by the secret agency Verfassungsschutz are allowed (or not). I don't claim that this is the right way to do it - but it would be so important for the UK to be able to compare how other nations do handle that topic. There is (and here I'm repeating myself) a big lack of media coverage (perhaps the Times has something?) in the UK regarding stuff that happens on the continent.
The system is flawed, but denouncing it as a conspiracy by elites to defraud the people is a way to accelerate dysfunction towards collapse.
The American example is salutary. US politics is so polarised and embittered that there is scarcely any shared vocabulary between left and right to even describe the choices that democracy is meant to settle. .