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Considering that Lowe has the charisma of wet cardboard I can't see them being much of a threat to reform unless Farage kicks the bucket (perhaps is caught whatever Trump has)
"Elon Musk helps to launch ridiculous double-far-right party, to make his friend Nigel's actual far-right party seem reasonable by comparison"
As if that Nazi is only playing double Nazi as a complicated scheme.
As if we can take for granted that this agenda won't be enforced.
Reform --> Restore --> Racist
Leaving the EU wasn't enough. The real problem is within us. Not just the immigrants, but the dirty immigrant lovers!
Once we have forced all the foreigners out and cut off all interactions with Europe and the rest of the world we can finish isolating our youth and snuffing out their future. We can then enslave them for our benefit in useless jobs they will hate.
You see, we just want to Make United Kingdom the Same Again! MUKSA!
I feel like the movie isn’t even that old!
Why is Eritrea brought up so much? It's teeny tiny.
Also, why has Afghanistan been the hotspot for violence for all of human history?
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.
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.
Because there's an extreme amount of imperialism in Eritrea leading to a lot of refugees and therefore easy victim blaming
Afghanistan is located pretty centrally in Asia so there's a lot of imperialism passing through there.