As the Liberal Democrats kicked off their party conference in Bournemouth, the party indicated that it upholds liberalism and democracy, and provides a healthy alternative to voters who are leaving Labour and the Tories.
The party has a record number of 72 seats, the result of tactical anti-Tory voting and a focus on winnable seats in the former “Blue Wall” at the last election. By refusing to attend the Trump banquet too, their affable, prankish leader Ed Davey showed his mettle.
There has rarely been a greater need for a liberal, open-minded voice within our politics. Now, across the west, the far right and hard right are commanding the public space and obliging mainstream politicians to follow their drumbeats. Davey had looked like being the man to provide it. Yet now, suddenly, at the start of the conference, he, in full Nigel Farage mode, vows to “stop the boats”. The heart sinks.
The right came first for undocumented migrants. Farage now promises/threatens to make legal, settled immigrants reapply for visas. Repatriation of most “outsiders” is the goal. That could mean your colleagues, neighbours, your children’s friends, the newsagent and GP. After that, they could turn on feminists, pro-abortionists, human rights activists, journalists, TV presenters, academics and freethinkers.
In the US, savage censorship is underway: no proper assessment of the murdered far-right activist Charlie Kirk is permitted; newspapers and TV channels are being sued in the name of “free speech”. Double standards are normalised. Democrats are stupefied by the God-President. You suspect Farage wants what Trump has.
This weekend we went to one birthday party for a dear friend who used to present children’s programmes, and another for a friend who is a reputable economist. At both celebrations, conversations turned to the far right, Trump’s visit and racist ideologues. A female Asian guest and her daughter got caught up in the march led by Tommy Robinson. They were terrified, and the spinning of what she witnessed as a cry of dispossessed people has only added to that panic.
The anti-migrant rhetoric of Kemi Badenoch, Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, Rishi Sunak, Reform’s chair Zia Yusuf and black and Asian Labour lickspittles represents a dismal migrants-against-migrants wedge in current politics. They don’t understand that white nationalists would send them off on boats with the rest of us.
Today, the big breach in this country is not between the right and left, but between the lefties, centrists and mainstream right-wingers for whom the principles of liberal democracy and international law are sacrosanct, and those who are trashing that heritage by embracing Robinson and Farage.
Among the cowardly turncoats are Labour and Tory MPs, councillors and ministers. Watching the US disintegrate rapidly isn’t making them stop and think.
Reassuringly, prominent British liberals of varying political attachments are awake to the dangers. Max Hastings, the erstwhile editor of The Telegraph, joined anti-Trump protestors last week. He explained why on Radio 4’s Today programme. Trump, he said, is desecrating democracy, and was invited “in the hope that the crocodile will eat us last”.
The people of Australia and Canada did not succumb to the beast. In Germany, the left-wing Die Linke faces down the far-right AfD. While our national conversation is all about Farage becoming the next Prime Minister, the UK’s new Green Party leader Zack Polanksi breaks the consensus and slams the Reform leader: “…the likes of Farage and Boris Johnson absolutely sold people a pup and told them that this was going to improve their lives, where it was very, very clear that this was going to be most damaging for their communities… I think this is an existential moment for the country.”
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When bullies use the dark arts and lies to take over and turn the country into a riven, disunited kingdom, liberals don’t have to play nicely. We must speak up, talk back. Journalists must properly scrutinise Farage and co. I’ve been on programmes with him. It’s not that hard. He does not stay suave and controlled when you treat him with contempt.
Keir Starmer and Badenoch too need to prove they are defenders of democracy, the rule of law, independent institutions and non-conformist individuals. In 1838, Abraham Lincoln said: “There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.” The UK’s liberal traditions and democracy are being destabilised by a populist surge and mob law.
Every vote for Reform takes us closer to a Trumpian future. Millions of Britons dread what’s coming. Do what you can to stop Reform. Before it is too late.
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