James Explains How The Policies Of The Old Far Right Are Now Mainstream
7 June 2017, 13:22 | Updated: 8 June 2017, 07:32
Stop immigration. Reject the common market. Scrap overseas aid. Rebuild our armed forces - Far right policies from 1970.
As we reach the end of the 2017 General Election campaign, James says the whole narrative has lurched to right, and he has a shocking example to prove it.
“You think I'm exaggerating when I tell you how far this country is lurching to the right at the moment based on nonsense?
“This is a National Front poster from 1970: Put Britain's first. Stop immigration. Reject common market. Restore capital punishment. Make Britain great again. Scrap overseas aid. Rebuild our armed forces.”
James explained how the far right infiltrated and became accepted by the British establishment.
“They just put on chalk-striped suits, pretended that they weren't the National Front for a while, and a kind of supine British media that leans to the far right - look at the Daily Mail's relationship with Oswald Mosely and Adolf Hitler.
"'He's got a chalk-striped suit on. He's not like that nasty Nick Griffin bloke with a with a sort of lazy eye and the strange expression on his face. We need a public school educated chap in a chalk-striped suit and he'll bring the policies of the National Front back into the mainstream.”
According to James the consequence of this is that the UK now has the most right leaning political landscape in memory, and those who were once considered toxic have been absorbed by the mainstream.
“Hardly anyone in the country be able to vote for the National Front tomorrow, because they don't need to anymore.”
