Over the weekend, there were protests outside an asylum hotel in Epping, triggered by an Ethiopian asylum seeker being charged with trying to kiss a schoolgirl. He denies any wrongdoing.
When the Times newspaper stood outside an asylum hotel in Norfolk this week, a car filled with young men drove by. One leant out the window and shouted: “We’re going to kill you all.”
This is a two-stage process. At one level we have the outright Nazis who participate in these events. They should be condemned, censured and ostracised. They should be treated like the thugs they are. But at the second level we have the non-ideological, everyday people who attend these demos. Perhaps they saw a leaflet somewhere about children no longer being safe. Perhaps they believed what they read about asylum seekers in a right-wing tabloid.
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Times are hard. Inflation and economic stagnation have decimated people’s spending power. But asylum seekers are not the ones to blame for this situation. Just 0.6 per cent of the UK population consists of people who came to the country seeking asylum. Adjusted by population size, we only received the 20th highest number of asylum applications in Europe, with 12.5 applications per 10,000 residents.
This is the message Reform UK spreads in its unique space on the margin of the mainstream and the far-right.
Party leader Nigel Farage then plays a very delicate game. He ensures he has plausible deniability by condemning far-right thugs, but then encourages the protests.
This year he says “there were some bad eggs that turned up at Epping”. But, as usual, he stokes the protests by saying: “We are letting in every week… many hundreds of undocumented young males, many of whom come from cultures in which women and young girls are not even treated as second-class citizens.”
His answer was even more extraordinary. Cleverly condemned any rioting, but decided that the blame lay with “agitators both on the left and right” who were “descending on these communities to try to stir things up”. He was drawing a moral equivalence between Nazis and counter-demonstrations by a group called Stand Up to Racism. How did we reach a point where racists and anti-racists are considered politically equivalent in the mind of a mainstream politician? What kind of moral relativity has he succumbed to in order to make this statement?
He is not alone. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner told Cabinet yesterday that immigration – along with other factors – was having a “profound impact on society” and that the “social fabric” had to be repaired. Home Office minister Seema Malhotra told the BBC that “we recognise people’s frustrations… People are angry, and I feel angry too.” Keir Starmer took to X, a social media site infested with the far-right, to reassure people that “we’re cracking down on migrants working illegally”.
Cowering in the corner will not save us from the far-right. Paying superficial lip-service to their prejudices will not defeat them. The only way to battle this ideology is to challenge it, to refute it, to speak firmly and passionately against it, to ostracise it, to make it socially shameful, to reject its narrative, to tear the poison out at the root.
Unless we have politicians and journalists prepared to do that, we will continue to sink into this poisonous swamp.
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