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'We will discriminate': Elon Musk-backed Restore Britain party launches with hard-right vision (www.middleeasteye.net)

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A new party has entered Britain's political scene to the right of Nigel Farage's Reform UK, declaring that "millions must go" and pledging a ban on halal and kosher slaughter.

The far-right Restore Britain party was launched on Friday night in Great Yarmouth by former Reform MP Rupert Lowe and has been endorsed by Elon Musk.

Lowe, a millionaire businessman and farmer who used to be chairman of Southampton FC, released an "immigration policy", which he called "deportation poetry", over the weekend.

He pledged to close off visa routes for "Albania, Pakistan, Somalia, Eritrea, Afghanistan and plenty more".

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[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Afghanistan absolutely hasn't been a hot spot for violence (relative to the rest of the world) for all of human history but Russian and British imperialism and the rivalry between the two Great powers from the 18th-20th centuries and the exploitation that came with it caused internal strife, political instability, vast inequality and religious extremism.

[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Might as well go as far back as Alexander the great or Persia The region has chewed up every empire that's ever step foot in it.