I am interested in why there is an assumption that NR in France is 'Far Right' (Woosh).
What policies qualify as 'Far Right'? Far right for me is outright fascism. They are nothing like that.
Actual Policies:
Why is this prescription for French society regarded as Far Right?
It isn't anything like the far right some of us remember in Europe where democracy was banned, military dictators controlled everything and imprisoned political opponents.
I can remember when Spain, Portugal and Greece were run by military dictatorships. It was only a handful of years before my birth that Germany and Italy were run by brutal, murderous hard right regimes murdering people. That is teh hard right, not Jason Bardella or the unattractive (to me ) Nigel Farage.
The same misuse of 'hard right' is regularly smeared over Reform which is FAR from hard right. Reform advocates:
Hard right??
I don't think it is at all. These are just policies that make sense to a LOT of people in thus country. Other parties have ignored and laughed at these ideas.
What policies qualify as 'Far Right'? Far right for me is outright fascism. They are nothing like that.
Actual Policies:
- French Law to take priority over EU law.
- Some degree of protectionism to prevent export of jobs
- Non alignment
- Proper response to law breaking and disorder
- Restoring of border controls rather than Shengen open borders
- Control of migration
- No pandering to Islam
- Protection of traditional French culture
- Opposition to 'Punitive Ecology' (net zero type policies).
- Repatriation of industrial jobs
- Emphasis on French values, laïcité (secularism), and cultural homogeneity
Why is this prescription for French society regarded as Far Right?
It isn't anything like the far right some of us remember in Europe where democracy was banned, military dictators controlled everything and imprisoned political opponents.
I can remember when Spain, Portugal and Greece were run by military dictatorships. It was only a handful of years before my birth that Germany and Italy were run by brutal, murderous hard right regimes murdering people. That is teh hard right, not Jason Bardella or the unattractive (to me ) Nigel Farage.
The same misuse of 'hard right' is regularly smeared over Reform which is FAR from hard right. Reform advocates:
- Cut income tax for middle earners.
- Raise the minimum income tax threshold to ease pressure on working families.
- Reduce Corporation Tax to 15% to stimulate investment.
- Scrap Net Zero policies, which they claim hurt British competitiveness.
- Support British energy independence (nuclear, North Sea oil and gas, shale)
- Cut the size of the civil service (“slash waste and bureaucracy”).
- End diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training and “woke culture” in public institutions.
- Root out what they call "institutional political correctness".
- Increase NHS funding, but restructure it.
- Reduce NHS management and bureaucracy.
- Introduce more private-sector partnerships for efficiency.
- Encourage personal health responsibility, including tax incentives for healthier lifestyles.
- Ban teaching of gender ideology and critical race theory in schools.
- Support free speech in universities.
- Reintroduce grammar schools and focus on core academic subjects.
- Reduce focus on “woke agendas.”
- Recruit more police, but focus on visible policing and serious crime.
- Deport all foreign criminals.
- Crack down on grooming gangs and violent crime.
- Restore confidence in the justice system with longer sentences and fewer early releases.
- Zero illegal immigration: Deport anyone arriving illegally (e.g., small boat crossings).
- Leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) if it blocks deportations.
- Reduce legal immigration drastically—limit to skilled workers only.
- Implement an Australian-style points-based system, but stricter than the UK’s current version.
- Increase border force and build proper detention infrastructure.
Hard right??
I don't think it is at all. These are just policies that make sense to a LOT of people in thus country. Other parties have ignored and laughed at these ideas.
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